On Making Time When Your Schedule is Already Full!
I was standing in the kitchen after dinner, and I had a sudden memory flash about my mother — somewhat late in life — talking about "how busy" she always was.
At the time, I couldn't quite fathom what she was talking about, because her entire day revolved around what looked to me like very little, at all. She'd get up, have a modest breakfast, make her shopping list, go to the supermarket, come home, have lunch, maybe water the garden a bit, make dinner, watch a little TV... and that led her to declaring that she was "always busy."
A Matter of Perspective
Of course, I recognize that such concepts as "busy" are often a matter of individual perception. One person's "busy" is another person's "holiday stroll."
I looked at my mom's life through the lens of comparing her to other retired people I knew, and she seemed anything but busy.
I'm rambling on about this because I am somehow going to "make time" to undertake this "100 Day Project" I mentioned in a post a few days ago, using my @alchemystones art account. This, in spite of the fact that I am always complaining about never having enough time to get everything done!
Again, it's all a matter of perspective, and about prioritizing what means the most to us.
One of the things I have repeatedly "been told" by people who purport to know about such things is that those people in our world who seem to be successful at something are typically dedicating all their energy and all their time to one single enterprise.
It's something — I will quite openly admit — I have never been very good at. I tend to flit around from interest to interest, rather like a hummingbird in search of nectar. Albeit with somewhat less energy.
The purpose of doing such a ridiculous thing as a challenge that goes for 100 days is to force myself to stick to something and see it through consistently.
My artwork is important to me, and based on the typically positive reception we get when we go to art shows as vendors, I know it deserves better than to dwell in eternal obscurity. If I had established thoroughly that nobody likes what I do, I wouldn't be thinking about something like this.
I was also looking at my historical stats on Etsy, and found it rather sad how both sales and traffic have been steadily declining since 2017, even though the quality of the work is better and the number of choices more than doubled.
Alas, we live in an age where these giant e-commerce marketplaces no longer provide anything... like customers... you have to bring your own. Or pay extra, so they make all the money for your work!
And so, I sit here contemplating the fact that I am taking on this additional challenge even though I have no time. Good luck with that!
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Created at 2024-02-19 01:25 PST
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Ah bro, don't worry about that and do whatever you want to do whenever you want. For me it's clear enough that one only dedicates one's time to what one intuits will meet one's expectations fulfilling their wishes that all that might be time well spent. That it was really worth it as to one can be able to say that one was "busy" and effectively engaged in something truly gratifying. Something that very, very rarely happens.
So in my opinion, why quit to be like a hummingbird in constant search of nectar? Because I don't think there is or will be anything more rewarding than that. Behaving and being able to stay like a free hummingbird without restrictions to fly from flower to flower whether it takes 100 days or a lifetime to suddenly and unexpectedly find the sweetest of nectars. :)
Beautiful write up. Times have changed and one has to work extremely harder to get the results the once got even half of that. However the approach of getting better at what you do is the star of the writing. That alone has got potential of making you see opportunities, you have not been able to see due to focusing on one thing for a long time.