The Voice

Good morning to you all.

It's Monday once again and I feel energized this week. I have had two or three weeks of thinking and deciding, but now I've made some decisions and I'm ready for action.

It's interesting how I go through periods of calm (sometimes it almost feels like stagnation) creatively speaking. I have ideas but they won't come out in any concrete form. Then suddenly my brain has thought them through for long enough and they spill out at an alarming rate.

That's where I am now.

I like to set myself goals so that the calm never lasts indefinitely. I had already decided and told one of my mentors that I'd have work ready by the end of this week. That forces my head to set deadlines of its own and have the thinking done at the right time so that the ideas can spill out at the right time as well.

It took me years of refining my writing process to come up with this time management system that works for me. Everyone has to create their own system I realize. Some people leave it to the last minute and find that the pressure stimulates their creativity. Other people are the slow and steady type that work a bit every day no matter what. I know there are certain days when new ideas just won't flow. I have learned not to fight it (though it can still cause a bit of frustration) and I do other things that have got to be done anyway, such as book keeping, working on current contracts, researching the job market, networking and so on.

And if I can't focus on any of those things either I clean my house.

So now my brain feels as if it's on fire. I always feel a bit restless and edgier when I am in this state, but I always get a lot done too so it's all good.

This is when I say to myself (thanks to Wayne Gretzky): You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

A demain.