We all need holidays, especially once we are self employed or stuck in a job that takes more than it gives. Sure, all this stuff may put the food on the table and allow you to spend some time under in a warm room, but after all, we need time to please our-self.

1. Work burns out

We work too much, we end up burning out. No matter what we do, once things are the same every day and the stress is almost unbearable, we have to stop. Actually we should all stop far earlier, but most people don’t.

2. Time off refreshes

There is more to life than work, and if you do not know how you can spend your time off, you are doing something wrong. There are so many things one can do in life, and most of those things are a lot of fun. Don’t think too much, and go for the experience, at least you will be able to tell a more interesting story at the water stop in the office next time.

3. Only time allows you to reflect your life

When we are caught up in life, we don’t have time to adjust it. Sometimes it’s great to simply react and see what is coming, but after all there should be something we strive for. In case you are in a struggle with your work and have to make ends meet it’s almost impossible.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.

Tyler Durden

So, take time off and start working on your creative output. Start being someone who actually cares enough about himself to do what he wants to do, instead of taking the easy road out.

1. Only the strong survive

GTA teaches Darwinism in the most simple way possible: Kill it before it kills you. Actually Darwin said that the most adaptable wins, but in GTA it’s definitely the strongest or most violent.

2. Violence is necessary to succeed

You have to be a ruthless and especially violent motherfucker to get what you want. No matter if you are Nico Bellic, Tommy Vercetti or Carl Johnson you are extremely violent to get what you want. The sea is big enough to sink those who get in your ways.

3. Friends do not work on auto pilot

Since GTA3 we know that friends have to be taken care of. You have to meet them and go out with them to keep in touch and make them happy. Friends forget you as fast as you can say Hi.

4. Everything has a price

The world turns around money, and 98% of the world will do things for money that go against their nature.

5. Revenge is the ultimate engine

The whole game of GTA is build around revenge. It’s the ultimate engine to get you to the highest worlds, or to get you killed very fast. No matter how hard you try, it will not always be a gratification if you get it, just like your whole mission of GTA4 turns out to be hunting a junkie that will die anyways.

6. Everyone is crooked

Just as everything has a price, everyone has a price tag. No matter if it’s money, power or the flashlights of fame. People will do anything to get you to help them to save their skin.

7. Every criminal is a migrant

One of the most racist things is, that most Americans seem to be to unflashy to be real criminals and the only way to portrait this is to make every migrant a potential criminal. And even worse, 95% of the criminals in this game are actually people with a migration background. I guess this is one of those political incorrect things that will help to boost sales.

8. Family above all

Only your family counts, and even there will be traitors. It’s been know since Godfather II, you can trust no one, but the family is the only security you have.

9. There is lots of useless violence

People get killed everyday, driving is not save and innocent bystanders are hit more often than we all wish. Violence will never only hit the ones who deserve it and will squelch a lot people who have nothing to do with it.

10. The best advertisement comes by word of mouth

The best advice for freelancers is to deliver good work and others will approach you to sell their dope, whack their opponents or rob a bank. In freelance life the same rings true, a good photographer or designer will be know for his works. A writer will have his books recommended by his readers and a fun melody can turn into a funky ring-tone.

11. Relationships need flowers, gifts and attention

One of the sickest and most stupid things you could learn from GTA is that women work like a game and you have to do nice things to make them happy and get in their pants. There is more to life than bribes to make you liked.

12. You are the limit of your own beliefs

Scarface told the story, GTA goes with it, no matter how small you are, you just have to know what you want and go for it. Stop thinking about plans and take action and you will be better off than 80% of the people who never even start doing something.

13. Drivers licenses are overrated, so are laws of the street, but you can get killed by driving like a madman

The great part about GTA is that you will learn that every car has a different way of reacting. Nevertheless you will have a lot of accidents when you are driving without the limits of laws and will wreck you cars as you go.

14. You have to collect your profits

This has been big in GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas, whenever you start a business you have to collect the money it produces, unless you don’t take care of your income it will hit a plateau at one time. You have to invest to make money.

15. You need more than 1 living space to avoid commuting

Communting sucks and takes up a lot of useless time, that’s the reason why the developers reduced the time you have to travel to your work, in other words your missions, in order to keep you happy. There is nothing more useless than wasting time in your car to get from a to b every single day in your life.

16. Eating fast food regenerates your health

One of those other things that will make you scratch your head is that in GTA4 fast food will regenerate your health. Better stick to GTA San Andreas where you had to exercise in order to stay fit while fast food made you fat and ruined your health.

17. Sleeping will save your life

Just as in real life, every period of rest will regenerate your life and save your progress. Life without sleeping will simply wears us down and burn us out. We have to take breaks in order to perform at our highest levels.

18. Violence can be disturbingly entertaining

Violence is is usually ugly, but sadly it’s more appealing and entertaining to human nature than most other peaceful endeavors. You need competition and if there is blood involved all the better.

19. Money does not care about color, but people using it do

Money does not care who uses it, but most people have prejudices against people from different cultures, they hang on their cash and think everybody who is from somewhere else will rob them. Rich people will always do whatever possible to make the poor hate each other so they won’t see where their money really goes.

20. Stuntmen live a dangerous life

Every monster stun you do can potentially kill you. So all Kudos to the people who live a life others will only test as a video gamer.

As someone who is working within the field of creative output everything boils down to making decisions. You have to pick colors, ideas and the right target group. Or you have to decide to go against the grain. As long as the efforts of this blog don’t even hit 1000$ per month, or maybe a few hundreds, this whole exercise does not count as a success.
It’s time for some actions… the buisness plan of decisions reworked

1. Read less, write more

Right now I am on an information overkill. I have been reading a lot of books, that are motivators to get yourself up and going, nevertheless reading does you no good unless you take some serious action, too much information is a disability. The less you know the more you will be able to approach without second thoughts or fears.

2. Get my products on the market

As of speaking right now, there are no real products I have created or promoted, besides 10 stock photos and my textures. As long as I don’t have something else to show for case study purposes on this blog, it’s time to push more of my textures, as those have been the most successful part of my blog.

3. Connect with other bloggers

My networking ability has been close to zero. My traffic simply sucks, I have to interact more with people within my niche.

4. Produce, Produce, Produce

Having created a few projects before smashill, this blog has proven to be something that feels right, even though the summer months have been very short of updates. By creating this blog and reading about creative works in the process a lot of new ideas grew in my head. It’s simply about time to get them done.

Conclusion

Take a more aggressive stance towards creating/producing products and stop being a passive consumer of content.