You can look in my bio for information about that if you want to. But here nor there at this point, I'm working on my second one, and it's different. I'm writing a fictional novel, and I've never done that before. It's based on true events, but it's challenging me as a writer because I'm not just telling a story that I already know
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:03
And you look at it and you go, this is such a great reminder that things need tenderness and they need care and they need the regard for what their environment has to be for them to make those initial growth moves. And yet for ourselves, we're like, I'm going to get to Z. But Z is like whatever the journey is, so the story, because so seldom do we get to the end of things
I just want to leave, but it's not really that simple. I can't leave for 30 days so I can't get a job, but that's the thing. I can't barely work because my body hurts and I haven't rested how I want to and I have autism. This is not the place to be if you're an autistic person or a person with disability in the first place, because they don't treat everyone as equals. They treat everyone like they're above everyone
Marie G Inspires
@GetGoing · 2:01
Thanks for replying. I'm very sorry to hear that you're in such a tough place right now. I have faced homelessness before and depression and that overall feeling of hopelessness. So I do relate to some of what you're saying. Sometimes get going does not mean physically get up and go somewhere or go do something. Sometimes it just means it's time to look for solutions that are at hand right now. Sometimes it's just I need to work on my mental health
Marie G Inspires
@GetGoing · 0:27
Thank you so much for replying. I love that metaphor. Such a good reminder. We need to go from A to B to C, not A to Z. I just I so appreciate that. Encouraged me and yeah, thank you. Appreciate it. Appreciate the kind words and what you're doing on flow also. So thanks for the interaction
Zara Lisbon
@ZLisbon · 3:39
And now I'm in this position where I have finished a draft of this novel, and it's two separate characters and two separate storylines, and the idea is to have them being woven throughout the way some authors can do so seamlessly. And I've never done it before, so it's been a goal of mine. So I've written the two separately, and now I feel like I'm daunted by the task of how am I possibly going to weave it all together?
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 1:21
Thank you so much for this. While I completely relate, I didn't know that there was a saying for what I do, the analysis paralysis, but that I that is me to a T with a lot of things that I do just really going all around the thing that I need to do when actually I would feel so much better if I just did the thing
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Zaire Ukuu
@zaireukuu · 4:49
Even with me going to the gym little by little I did something until I got to a point now where I'm like I had to keep stepping it up to where I'm like, all right, I'm almost addicted to the gym. I'm like I got to go. It's not even a half to go. It's like I got to go. I want to go. I know I'm late to the game but I hope you've been writing and everything's been well
Marie G Inspires
@GetGoing · 1:10
I really enjoy your perspective. I appreciate you sharing and joining the conversation. And thanks for the encouragement. And yeah, I'm going to keep writing and keep putting stuff out there. I really love it. It's becoming to me what you said the gym is becoming to you. I'm still hoping the gym is going to become that to me. I'm working on that, too. But I do love it. It is good. And and yeah
Serena Rios
@cactuscloudsart · 4:52
Currently in order to paint every day I've been sitting in front of my TV and putting on a Netflix show and so while my kids were in school I would come home and have my breakfast and then I would put on, I don't know, Ann with an e and I would just have my little TV table with my paint set and just a couple of supplies and I would take them out of my studio and go straight to that table and work and so part of that being able to just sit down and do the thing is figuring out actually working through the process what is it going to take for me to actually do that and then preparing that and following through instead of every single time you want to sit down and do it you have to make a plan you have to do the things you have to press space know exactly what it's going to take so that when you are ready to sit down and do the thing you really, truly can just sit down and do the thing you don't have to clean the table you don't have to it's wash your paints out whatever it is anyway that's it