Making Plans and How They Go Awry

 

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We know what is right and what is wrong. We know this. If you were lucky, you were raised to know right from wrong. It’s not right to go around hitting people. It is nicer to share your toys. Don’t chew with your mouth open. Don’t yell in church—that type of stuff.

You know it is not right to go into a bank and rob everybody. And yet people do it. You don’t, but other people do. Were they not raised right? What if their parents weren’t around and the people who raised them were robbers? Think of David Copperfield. Not the magician, the character Charles Dickens created. Didn’t he turn out okay in the end? Even with Fabian to teach him how to be a pickpocket?

I know that was fiction, but it happens.

It’s when you decide to do something different with your life that the universe helpfully steps in and shows you opportunities related to who you were, not who you are now. It happens. Look at Jules in “Pulp Fiction”. He was trying really hard to be a good guy, yet he was still stuck in his bad-guy life. I’m watching Samuel L. Jackson in Lesson 6 of his Masterclass on Acting right now. That’s what they were discussing, and it reminded me of how many times the same thing has happened to me when I tried to turn over a new leaf in my own life. By the way, MasterClass is having a half-off sale, so if you are interested, now, at the end of the year, is a good time to take advantage of it.

You’ve got your status quo, which is the life you’ve been living. You want to make a change, and dang it, it is just really hard.

You want to go on a diet at Thanksgiving, and here is everybody with candy and cookies and all sorts of yummy things to eat. Well, either that was a poor choice on your part, or you’ve got some sort of inner demon who wants to sabotage diet plans (this is real, folks), or you can decide to delay diet plans until the new year, which is what all the grown-ups do.

Nobody wants to upset the apple cart, and even though what you are doing, whatever it is, needs a reset, your inner self doesn’t want it to happen. Not yet, anyway.

Maybe smaller steps are necessary or, maybe you need to have a discussion with your inner self.

Maybe you need to think about what might happen if you go ahead with your plans.

If you are trying to be the good guy, then every bad guy in the area is going to come and find a reason why being the good guy is not a good idea. Hey, I’m trying to play Devil’s Advocate here.

It takes an extra effort to change something you’ve been doing for a long time. Diets don’t have start and end dates. You’ve got to work your way into healthier eating habits. You’ve got to incorporate a little bit of stretching and exercise into your life. Not enough to hospitalize yourself, enough that you begin to look forward to doing ten pushups in the morning, leaning against the kitchen counter. If anybody comes in wanting to know what you are doing, you can tell them the counter is starting to become unattached to the wall and you’re doing your part to convince it otherwise. Leave them guessing; that’s what I say.

Earlier in the year, I wanted to write more. At the time, I was writing about three stories a week at Medium. Not many people were reading. So, I switched my writing efforts over to Substack. Now, I publish three stories a week at Substack and twice at Medium. I also publish twice a week at my website, TalkingtoSpirit.com, and at my author’s website, PaulineEvanosky.com. I also publish on Fridays on Facebook. The plan was to write a novel in November, my own NaNoWriMo, since they are defunct now. I wasn’t ready to do that yet, except that I am writing consistently more than I was at the beginning of the year.

In November of 2024, I wrote 52,503 words. In November of 2025, I have 53,697 words on the 20th. On December 1st, I will update this, so you can see how much more I’m writing. I’m trying to get between 3,000 and 5,000 words written every day. Not there yet, but it’s getting more promising as I keep pushing forward.

If you write 1,667 words a day in a 30-day month, you will have 50,000 words at the end of said month.

It has taken me a while to rid myself of distractions, both of my own making and those of others. I’m getting better at it. It helps that I find YouTube 2-hour writing videos to use occasionally. Often, I find myself with headphones on and nothing playing. That helps muffle outside noises like kids, garbage trucks, traffic, and piano pounding.

You can only take one step at a time on your journey. The gratifying part is being able to look back and see how far you’ve come. I can remember years and years ago, wondering when I was going to write a book. Nothing was happening. That is, until I made it happen.

Hey, thanks for reading. Explore the other places I’m at on the Internet. See you in the dreamtime.

Love,

🌺 Pauline Evanosky

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