Goals: making things in the morning

[rivenwanderer]

After thinking about the way my schedule works, I've decided it's in some ways counterproductive to try to make things in the evening, when my brain is tired. Instead, I'm going to try to shift my schedule earlier, eventually waking up around 7 regularly, going downstairs to do creative stuff by 8, and leaving for work at 10, getting to the office sometime around 10:15. (I currently wake up around 10 and get to work at 11). A two-hour window of creative time *every day* would be really awesome--and help with the other issues I'm having with my work schedule, too. It'll be a challenge, but I have a French press :)

So my goal for this upcoming week (the one starting this upcoming Monday) is to finish one piece of jewelry by working on it exclusively in the mornings. I expect I won't be shifted entirely, but I think that getting into the rhythm of being creative in the morning *before* work will be important.

My goal for every week after *that* is to finish two pieces of jewelry per week, mostly in the mornings.

If my sleep schedule is truly stabilized in two months (by the weekend of July 9), I'm going to give myself permission to go to the area gem show :)

Bad mods, no cookie.

[mythochromos]

In hindsight, it doesn't seem like motivational communities run by someone/s who have trouble with motivation are going to have a high success rate. But we'll keep trying.

As for how we're doing on our goals? Heh...

Writing: 2/7 in the past week. Still got some Issues that make us uncomfortable about writing, especially writing the things we tend to.

Art: 7/7. Not very much variety at all; this is almost all knitting. We've been working on embodiment, a daily paper journaling project, with the goal of doing some small piece of art in each day's entry. That worked for ten days, maybe two weeks, then...not so much.

We still keep coming back to it, though. Having a low standard is good here; it makes it more likely we'll do something and finish it (assuming that it never has to see the light of day unless we decide it will), decide on a realistic amount of detail to finish in one day, and experiment with our supplies. It was nice to find out that oil pastels don't feel the way we expected, while doodling something akin to an early grade school level of design, rather than during practice for a Really Important project whose overall end look is fixed in our mind already.

The Work: 5/7, one of those being a bonus point for going above and beyond on one day. We're slowly getting more organized and decluttering, as well as doing mental housecleaning (see also: Art) and all that.

I know I saw at least two posts here in the past week. How are the rest of you doing?

-Shaynin