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i’ve got a lot of projects. um, a lot.

i have projects i am doing with other people, projects i’m finishing up, projects i’m in the middle of, projects i’ve put on hold, and a big pile of projects waiting in the wings. so many ideas! so many great things to try, to do, to experience, to put out there! and that sounds great, right? but i have spent my life beating myself up about this, trying to tell myself to focus, trying to pick that One Thing, trying, basically, to be someone i’m not.

i have resigned myself to the fact that this will never change. i have chosen to embrace this variety, rather than fight it.

i will always be interested in something new, trying something different, playing with new ideas and new materials. instead of fighting it and thinking about whether or not i should just choose one thing already dammit, i’ve decided to channel it. stop fighting who i am and take full advantage of the joy that this allows. the problem is not all these ideas and projects and new interests whirring about, the problem is that i don’t take time to collect all of these things, sit down regularly and organize and prioritize them, and figure out -daily weekly monthly seasonally- what i will focus on. truth be told, i’ve been trying to be hip and modern and, well, technologically advanced. i’ve been -for the past year- trying to organize myself electronically.

these electronic programs don’t work for my organic brain.

s0-i’ve concluded two things:

1)it is time to return to pen and paper to organize my life. iPhone apps and google apps and all these great tools are great tools, and they can help, but my organic brain needs pen and paper and sitting down AWAY from all that visual and informational clutter is necessary for me to get the big picture under control. in order to really hone in on the focus i need (to keep focused on so many things at once), i need to step away and go back to pen and paper. i used to do this. it worked really well. i used to organize my life something like this.

2)there are two things i’m really good at: food, and art. as long as the interests and new ideas are feeding and adding to those two areas, we’re good. these are the two project areas, and where they flow and where they jump within them is good and right and Who I Am.

it’s back to basics, and back to me. no apologies.

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