“Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.”
Elbert Hubbard
Guys are pretty good at “organizing energies around a goal.” As a gender, they tend to be goal-oriented and driven, competitive, and able to focus and tune everything else out in order to achieve something. Women know how to multi-task. They juggle several plates at any one time (and not just their own) with family, jobs, households, and more. Often women’s own goals, hopes, and dreams get lost along the way in order to keep all those plates from toppling, and to bring some kind of balance to a full life.
How to solve the problem of finding time to create art then?
1. SCHEDULE IT IN. Make a date with yourself and keep it. Your appointment to contribute a piece of art to the world is just as important as many other things you do in your life, and more important than some. Value your talents by giving them time to grow and mature.
2. PLAN TO SUCCEED. Each night, prepare what you need in your work space to begin creating art immediately the next day during your scheduled appointment. Then when it’s time to create art, you’re ready to start creating, and not spending much of your allotted art creation time gathering supplies. BONUS: When creating is on your schedule the night before, you have the whole night to formulate ideas for your project.
3. COMPLETE A DRAFT. You can edit or touch it up later, but write the draft, finish a composition, get the quilt top made. Allow enough time to actually finish a project or some whole portion of it. If it takes longer than you thought, try to leave your project at a point where it’s easy to restart.
“Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.” Mary Jean Irion
Find the perfect executive gifts and organize a work space as well with our beautiful desk accessories. Take your pick from our collection of wooden letterboxes and pen/pencil holders, with custom-designed inlaid tile, found on our website at www.creationsunlimitedllc.com (“At the Coffeehouse” just added to our line).
Until next time, happy creating!
Anne and Helen
Friday, June 11, 2010
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