Don't "Want to Be", Just BE!

I love this post by Kevin Smith and I'm going to read it every day for the next little while.  Here is the link to it.
To paraphrase it, boil it down, summarize it, whatever, I think he's saying to Just Do It.  Except, he talks about that point where the tension is the worst, and that's the point between wanting to Do It, and Done It. 
There's the point in a hobby, career, relationship, diet, whatever where you want to achieve something.  In my long laundry list of things I'd like to be when I grow up, there is "Writer".  I want to be a writer and I want my writing to put food on the table, even if it is a few day-old pieces of fried chicken from Fred Meyer's.  About 2 years ago I still had that dream.  I had a lot of ideas in my head about the best-selling book I'd write, the articles I'd publish, book tours, and joining or starting a band like Stephen King, Dave Barry, and Amy Tan did years ago.  So I walked around wanting to be a writer a lot.  But I hardly ever wrote.  I was going to get to it, I just needed: a long vacation, a writing retreat, a workshop, a winning lottery ticket, more time, less work, blah blah blah.  As soon as that all aligned, THEN I could sit down and get my words on paper. 
I read this article one Sunday about a woman who started her own line of purses.  I could seriously care less about purses, but I loved her entrepreneurial spirit.  She cited the book "The Artist's Way" (which I've mentioned roughly 8 billion times) as her inspiration.  So I bought it.  After a couple of tries, I actually got all the way through it, which was a 3 month process.  And then every story I've ever written was published, I found wealth, fortune, fame... no, wait.  That isn't true at all. 
What did happen was I became a writer.  I started to treat it like a part-time job (one that I enjoyed!).  I started writing every day.  I wrote an entire book, several short stories, and page after page in my journals.  I quit saying, "oh, I'd love to be a writer."  I was one.  (And, I do love it.)
There was a brief stage where I still envisioned that point in my life when I'd make a zillion dollars from a book, and until then I'd just hack away at my journals and short stories.  But, then that wasn't important anymore either.  What became more important to me was to write.  To start and FINISH stories.  To learn new ways to improve my writing.  Those are all things that you'd do if you were a writer and making money at it, so why wait until you make money to do those things?  I'm not going to be a writer because the world says I am a writer by throwing money at me.  I'm a writer now, and I'm telling the world. 
Kevin probably says it better.