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How many times do you get an idea, an aim, all energy to go with it, and then....
You lose your focus? You get discouraged?
Think of your New Year resolutions...or how many times you decided to lose weight.
Maybe instead, you decided to exercise on a regular basis, and it lasted a while before getting lost in the morass of living.
What happened? Why did you lose momentum? That analysis is another subject, worth the effort but a distraction from real time problem.
If the aim/project/ idea is in your heart, the real time solution is to start up, YET AGAIN!
Think of these starts, not as false starts, but as learning starts.
Just so with MY GREAT WHITE BARN! All energy when I moved to 8 Elm, Freedom, two exhibits within a year, but the barn needed to be winterized and that took major capital I wouldn't get until I sold my other house (still not sold, but soon!)
Money was there to winterize a small section of the barn...my studio/workplace...DONE! but an obligation to keep my other studio operating took the fun from what I could do in that barn across my lawn.
Discouragement! Expect it to happen on any project, but DON'T EVER GIVE UP! (Sign on my studio door.)
Take a rest.
Review your plans. Are you trying too much at once?
Break it into smaller bits and pieces!
I love the book, Write It Down, Make It Happen, by Henriette Anne Klauser.
It works...write out some details.
Then choose one piece to work on.
Big plans still have little pieces.
For me with my barn, call the contractor and discuss what piece he could do NOW!
Voila! Safe stairs meaning reasonable access to the second floor. (Sorry I didn't photo what had been there...9 inch risers, narrow and some split treads) In addition, the bones of a wall, the means to add appropriate insulation and the means to separate first from second floor for more efficient heating.
What more can I now do with the second floor easily accessible?
Wheeeee! Feels good to do a bit and a piece, to see and feel progress!
And, that makes my studio more inviting. I can walk past the progress being made, see my sign, and think of the next small steps.
Try it, something small every day!
(Check out my art blog, barbaramcevoyartist.blogspot.com and my website, BarbaraMcEvoyArtist.com)
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