Through my daily blogging, I’m learning and adapting to a number of concepts this year. One of them is that we create our own obstacles when we don’t accept the reality of our problems, choices, and opportunities. There are a couple of ways to look at this.
- If you can’t acknowledge a problem, you’ll never fix it.
- Truth is always better than fiction, delusion, or lies.
- You can like yourself just as you are, even if you aren’t what or who you thought you’d be.
I’m going to practice accepting the unacceptable. That doesn’t mean I like the situation and it doesn’t mean I can’t change it, only that I will no longer avoid it. I’m going to stare down the unacceptable until I see its origin, its power, what about it scares or protects me, and how to dissipate it.
Sticking to the creative:
- I’m not going to have a “career” as a novelist and I accept that.
- I won’t ever be well-known and I accept that.
- I can’t work on – and won’t ever be able to work on – all the different creative projects I have in my head, and I accept that.
- I won’t ever be able to write a book as perfect as the one I see in my head and I accept that.