1.1. First Steps

Ok, So. By Meg Meyer. V 1.1.

You spend more time and effort on the lives of your role playing characters or other escapism of choice, than you do on improving your real life. I'm SURE it makes sense to you and feels more immediately gratifying than taking a bite out of your own reality, which often tastes rather bitter.

But what if... what if you spent a fraction of that time on your life? We'll start with just an hour. You can devote an hour to improving your own real situation, right? NOT that hard.

In this hour, you'll focus on you, your life, your surroundings, your situation. Be honest, brutally honest about where you are. Imagine how you'd like it to be. (OK, I know some of you would prefer that your real life had faeries and dragons and the like, but I'm sure we can start with a job that doesn't suck, a girlfriend that likes your action figure collection, and maybe a plan to move out on your own.)

Do just this much, not more. Don't overwhelm yourself so you go back into your imaginary world, leaving your life to rot.

Answer these questions:

1. Look around you. What is your current environment like? Is it cluttered? Is it smelly? Does it inspire you?

2. What could be done to make it better?

3. What's a quick thing you can do right now that will make tomorrow easier? Setting out tomorrow's clothes? Making a lunch? Self-maintenance?

Take Action:

4. Do one thing that will make your environment better. It could be as simple as recycling empty soda cans & throwing out the trash that you've "been meaning to get to."

5. Do the quick thing you mentioned in question three above.

There. In under an hour you've taken little steps to improve your situation in real life. Feel free to do this again tomorrow, but for now... reward yourself (once you've completed your action steps.)

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