Juggling Time
When you decide what it is you want to be when you grow up, you are usually unaware of the difference between your dream, or how you picture your day will look, to the way it actually looks in reality.
This is true of most choices but especially true for the arts.
How much of our time do we spend doing what it is we intended on doing, Writing, composing, playing, potting or painting - and how much of our day goes to surfing the Internet, blogging, corresponding, having lengthly important phone conversations about this and that and the other.
Before we can say Jack Robinson, without even realizing it, we have to fit what ever it is we set out to do in between managing the rest of our lives….which makes us, instead of potters, composers, writers and musicians - secretaries.
I find the most difficult part in all of this is that even if we do set aside sufficient time to do what we set out to do in the start - in order for the world to hear our compositions or read our book a certain (huge) amount of marketing needs to be done - including emails phone calls and so on.
So how can this be avoided? The magority of your time sould be set aside for your main ocupation so that you can get high quality results, and so that the creative process can take its course.
Kate from the Ivory Tower has says
But the problem is Parkinson’s law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available.” You made the other project the priority, which inevitably leads to other things and opens the door to new responsibilities. One, then two days go by, then a week, and next thing you know it seems like it’s been months since you last had the chance to focus on your work.
By this point, of course, you feel behind and disoriented and it’s even harder to get back to where you were before you got off track. So the trick is twofold: 1) Set aside time every day to do your creative work. Let the essential trivia of daily life fill in the gaps, not the other way around. 2) Assess and drastically limit distractions. Write brief e-mails. Press the delete key. Turn off the phone.
