A lot of the past few months has been mired in dealing with issues in my profession. There’s been the strikes (WGA and SAG-AFTRA); a film that my partner and I walked away from; and the push to bring a new project into production. While the day-to-day flows easily enough, the overarching plan is one that’s weighed heavily on my mind.
And it isn’t that it’s bad. Or good. It just is. I’ve had to readjust. Pivot, as my partner has said numerous times.
And sometimes that’s the way it works. In Dale Carnegie’s How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, he advocates the idea of Sir William Osier, to live in “day tight compartments”. That is, “taking the world in strict 24-hour increments, letting neither yesterday nor tomorrow be a worry today”.
And such it is – that today is the day we have to live. The only day we actually have to contend with.
Michael's Musings 