Ambition

I have discovered my personal secret to happiness. Accepting work and putting off procrastination. Accepting trials and failure, and continuing to work.

For a long time I have desired to write and illustrate a graphic novel inspired by the reality I see. A world where every thing we think, do, and say is encouraged by supernatural forces of Good and Evil fighting an eternal war for our souls. The one to bring us to understanding and empowerment, and the other to blindness and despair.

A world where every thought and action is important, and eternally significant.

I have continually put off my project because it required a lot of effort and work to draw and write and think! How sad that feeling looks in writing.

But I am inspired again by personal revelation I have had reminding me of the Plan of Salvation.

I believe that my procrastination and lack of ambition is a struggle had by many and is a main tactic of Satan to destroy our society.

 I often find myself giving into desires to take it easy in my free time rather then working on such projects that I have desired to see realized for years. Letting myself drown to TV and movies or internet surfing. Of course rest is important, but I know if I really rested then I would have the energy to begin work on my hobbies in the next hour.

Satan encourages us to entertain ourselves for entertainments sake, to have fun and be happy. Just relax. To immerse ourselves in addicting and consuming activities. Giving us a half lie to tempt us with what we desire most: happiness, and encouraging us to find it in ways that will only constrain our real talents, and the real joys of personal satisfaction.

To overcome this pitfall one must set priorities and personal goals and then have the ambition to follow up and get to work on such projects you have always desired to undertake but have never been able to make real progress on. Art projects like mine, fitness and dietary goals, family goals, business goals, education goals, etc. Whatever calling you've been holding in your heart.

2 Nephi 2:29

Choose not eternal death, according to the will of the flesh and the evil which is therein, which giveth the spirit of the devil power to captivate, to bring you down to hell, that he may reign over you in his own kingdom.

2 Nephi 2:18

Because he (Satan) had fallen from heaven, and had become miserable forever, he sought also the misery of all mankind.

2 Nephi 2:25

Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.

D&C 58:27-28

27 Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness;

28 For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.