This video will change your life

While hubby was messing around with the Apple TV, he stumbled across a page of videos one of which was boldly titled ‘This video will change your life’. He called me in to watch it, interrupting my editing, as he said it was important. And he was right.

As Alan Watts says, too often we get caught up in the minutiae of living which usually means doing something we don’t enjoy doing to live longer to  carry on doing more of the thing we don’t enjoy doing. And yet there aren’t not many career talks that begin the way this video does, and how different would our lives be if they did!

Juggling writing with a day job and a family is hard, even though it’s something I love, sometimes it’s really, really hard. On the nights when I don’t manage to sit down to write until 9:30pm, my head is telling me, ‘are you mad, it’s time to unwind not start again, go to bed with a book, watch TV, have a bath’ but my heart is telling me, ‘write, sit down, fingers on keys and write’. When I’m tired and fed up sometimes the last thing I want to do is sit in that chair, staring at a blank screen searching for inspiration but that’s exactly the time I need to get into my story, walk amongst my characters and bring more of it to life.  The sense of achievement and fulfilment when I’ve made myself do just that on those tough days is worth every bit of the struggle.

The video’s here, it’s 3 minutes long, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siu6JYqOZ0g enjoy and ask yourself the question, what would you do?