3 Unconventional Ways to Change Your Life? Hmmm....

I just read a really interesting article called 3 Unconventional Ways to Change Your Life this Year, and I think you should read it too.

Looking around my sparse bedroom, you'd think to yourself: "this is a lazy person with nothing to live for who clings to the past", and that's certainly how I feel sometimes when I enter the room, but it doesn't reflect me well at all. I'll admit my back is bad, so yeah, lying down in front of a desktop instead of sitting up is a bit necessary for me. Other than that though, I don't see why my room needs to bring me down.

I need some DREAM PORN.

Thinking back, when I was dreaming of going to Japan, I already had so much dream porn surrounding me that I was constantly motivated. Looking around, I still have plenty of potential Japan motivations, except there's one problem with that. I don't want to go to Japan anymore. I've been there, done that.

Now, I want to accomplish one arguably much larger dream: be a famous professional artist.

Every time I say that, a good chunk of my brain laughs at me and tells me how ridiculous I am. Some people also think I'm ridiculous. Fine. The article is right. I need to break this all down into much smaller steps. I've been trying to do that. It's not very easy. I also need motivational reminders.

Some ideas I've played with, put down, and then started playing with again:

1. Join an art colony.
2. Backpack around the world, using a backpackers site to find houses that will feed me and let me stay the night.
3. Join the Peace Corp.
4. Become a monk of some sort, voluntary poor, that seeks and gives wisdom and asks for small donations to live off of. (I'm practically that already.)
5. Make a Non-Profit Organization dedicated to bringing Transgender people together.
6. E-publish.
7. Get a scholarship for funding my art.
8. Become a tattoo artist.
9. Go back to school for computers.
10. Go back to school for marketing.
11. Make a comic and spread it to as many people as possible, gaining a fanbase that can support me.
12. Find someone who's rich and believes in me (HEY STOP LAUGHING!)
... There's more but I'm having trouble remembering.


As for my bedroom I look around and see blah. A Knuckles doll sitting on my broken dresser mirror, staring straight ahead, only mildly interested in the blank wall ahead of him. A little black poodle with red ribbons tied around its ears, something I don't even remember receiving, nor do I have a sentimental attachment to it. I don't even find it fun to look at. I see a really nice monitor attached to a tower past its prime, a towel I've had since I was 16 hanging on my door, a shelf my gram-gram owned that I love cluttered with stuff I can barely see that I am sentimental for, and a window; its scenery including the wanna-be exclusive "Mansion" apartments, filled with occupants I despise, mediocre lifeforms who tend to annoy me with their drama, drugs, and sex.

How in the Hell am I supposed to get inspired here? This is depressing! I cannot change where I am, and I have no money to buy new furniture. Those options aren't viable.

Fine, but I can still change things for the better! Maybe post pictures all over the walls? I'm not sure yet.... I need a more clear path on what to do.