Good afternoon!
So, as I write this, I have just spent one hour of almost uninterrupted time on book2 and trust me, it was HARD. For someone like me (who has an attention span of a Goldfish). It sucked to not reach out for the phone every 1 second. But I am happy that I could do an hour on #book2. Today was the second day when I could work on it. If I go at this rate, I will probably have the bible ready in a month or so (that is what I am hoping to achieve). And why? Because a talent agent has asked me to write the bible – it apparently interests them enough to go pitch to some production houses. Yay to that!
Like I’ve been saying, the ability to write (and remain unfazed with negative feedback) has been the largest thing to me. These letters and my blog is ok – these are consumed by friends and family and thus I get immense support. But what I write in my books is for the world at large. And the world at large is anything but kind. I mean the world is kind as well. But there are enough and more that would not cut you slack. But then, those people expand my universe and get me ahead. So, it is worth the grind.
So yeah.
What else? Yeah… apart from this two-day streak of working on #book2, yesterday was a special day. I saw my name on a screen for the first time yesterday, as a producer. Of a short film. The only other thing that I’ve done before this is helping a musician friend with this music video.
No, can’t say much about the short film at this point in time, there are a lot of open ends. But we should be able to talk about it in less than a month. Hope it happens sooner. Can’t wait! It is a step in the direction of where I want to move with the theme of storytelling. And been wanting to move for a while.
Theme. Themes.
I think I have finally found a universal word to describe the method in my madness. I like knowing about many things and I love to talk to many people and I want to learn as much about things as I can. There is so so much that I want to do, stand for, push, etc. But I never had the word to describe those things. And often I would get trapped in my own head. And of course, no one would understand what am doing, let alone what am hoping to achieve. I was dancing to a song that no one else could hear.
Not anymore. I have the words to express what I am hoping to do. I call it themes.
Themes.
So, some themes that I have in life are…
- Storytelling / Entertainment
- Relationships / People
- Long-term thinking / Compounding
- Longevity
- Abundance / Wealth
- Enabling
- Ambition
- Give back / Pay it forward
Of course, this is an indicative list. There has to be more. There is. And then, once I have a largish set of themes to work with, I will reduce these themes to less than 5.
The list remains WIP. Like I said, with time I will refine these in a manner that they’d make more sense to me (and to the world). The point is that each thing I do must fall under a certain theme.
- Write books? The theme of storytelling, entertainment.
- Travel? The theme of exploration.
- Mt. Everest? The theme of adventure, ambition, inspiration.
- Teaching? The theme of giving back.
Think of these as tags. Each thing I do can now fit under a particular “theme” and with time, I will refine these.
Makes sense?
What are some of the themes that you relate to? What can I help you with?
Originally written as a letter to some friends on SoGv2.