Having a set plan for my day helps keep me accountable for the things I need to do throughout my day to maximize my time.
A lot of influencers will do videos of ‘a day in my life’ but they don’t show you all the behind the scenes of what actually happens. Influencers try and make there life look perfect and planned out but a lot of the time plans change and you need to figure something else to do with your time, especially at work. When I started planning out my week I wanted to go to a show home near by and show off the plumbing work that we had done, I have been feeling under the weather so myself and the sales person agreed that I would come in this week during office hours to come in and take pictures. When I arrived at the address and walked up to the door I found that it was still closed and no one was there.
Once I figured that no one was there I called the number. No answer. I drive away. I get back to the shop put all my things away and sit down to find something else to do when my phone vibrates, its the sales woman saying that she is on her way and I can come back, as of right now it is cold out and the roads are icy which is causing people to forget how to drive in the snow, so I stay at the shop and brainstorm my next project. Currently we are making onboarding videos for our hiring process and I have a script made and all the materials so lets go. This video is to help our new apprentices learn to solder to make showers and taps, for some people it can be a tough skill to learn but I am good at working with my hands so I picked up the skill fairly quickly. All of the site supervisors make jokes about me teaching the new apprentices so I might as well make a video on how I do it.
My Twitter story didn’t go the way that I had planned so when it came to continuing my story I had to brainstorm a little bit to figure out what I could fill my time with since there was conflict with my original plan.
The beginning starts with the idea of going on a quest (me going to a show home) but soon after conflict arises ( no one being there), during this conflict a solution is needed. When returning from the quest solutions are presented (receiving a text message from the sales person) but the decision if the journey back is worth it appears. Finally a decision is reached that even though the adventure would be worth it the risk of the journey is far too great. Now that a decision has been reached by the main character they must find another small adventure to occupy her day with. After brainstorming the main character finds a new adventure, soldering.
The character changes the path that they were on and changed the outcome of their day, when changing the adventure you open up new doors of what you know about the characters and give the readers insight into the thought process and how it effects them. Changing the adventure also shows how that character deals with change and their reaction to having to do something new. Even though there was a change in plans the character still persevered and completed the journey successfully even with all the bumps in the road. They were able to redesign their day to fit the circumstances. Most readers will feel that this is a relatable story because in daily life nothing ever goes completely as planned, there is always a fork in the road that causes you to change paths and follow something else even though you had a set plan.
In conclusion I wanted to make my Twitter thread relatable in the sense that everyone always has a plan for their day but one little thing can change everything, including what path you may follow the day coming. Life is imperfect and influencers try and romanticize the idea of a perfectly planned life, but for most people that is a unobtainable standard based on the lifestyle you live, making a perfect life is their job, it isn’t yours.
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