What’s On Your Everything Else List?

0 CommentsWednesday • April 10, 2013 • by Imei

Thinking like an Artist in the Digital Age

This week is one of those weeks where I remember silly things, such as “you don’t have to have only one thing to write about to submit a blogpost.”

Here I am, an Artist. I have a day job as a therapist where I get to unite the scientific with the the spiritual, mystical, and the artistry of authentic living, and I get to do it in one of the most exciting eras: the Digital Age.  I run into these strange moments of utter paralysis, where I am twitching whilst my fingers hang over the keyboard. “Too many things to write about! Where do I start?” my mind screams. I start here. If you have any idea to march upon that is in the least bit artistic, you will encounter at least one person close to you that doesn’t like it and will let you know you  or your idea – or both – “suckz ballz”. I’ll hazard a guess that this indicator is as good as any to let you know you might be onto something.

 

On the short end of things, I’ll cut to the chase. In the span of four weeks, I managed to:

* get engaged to be married

* travel to Maui and ride in a support van for triathletes

* attend my first swimming lesson.  Ever.

* commit to training for my first sprint triathlon [woot!]

* fill my work calendar to 90% capacity

* come up with two more eBook ideas

* be selected to receive a pair of Google Glass in the #ProjectGlass contest

* be filmed in a TV commercial for pay [check is in the mail]

* entertain a performance-oriented collaboration with a fellow artist

* complete a reverse-order, mostly indoor triathlon without cracking my head open during the swim [I did bump into a swimmer sharing a lane]

Other than eating, sleeping, and working, the “everything else” list is all the stuff I wish to attend to more, but after the other three things are taken care  of adequately. But if you noticed, my “everything else” list is quite long! I should be absolutely and unequivocally BONKERS right now. Stark raving mad. Looney Tunes and ready to eat my kittehs for breakfast out of sleep deprivation and over-exhaustion. Read on to find out how I’m managing to have a life, do art, and make my world a better place!

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