Oh the shame…
I have been a bad blogger and not done a post for three weeks. On the plus side, this is because I have been in the studio making work…the pre-scheduling has been really helpful and stopped me going “Oh I’ll just paint the deck while the weather’s good”. I still lost a couple of days – had to have an outpatient procedure at short notice, and had to stay home to deal with a domestic drama – but overall I scheduled in seven studio days in April, and managed to do six and a half. And I deferred some paid work, so will have to make up those hours…The group project I was working on did eventually get a name: The Heinrich Event
One thing clear from my prioritising of studio time over organisation is that I still need time to reflect and plan; if I don’t do this I start to get anxious and panicky, with a constant nagging feeling that there is more I should be doing, although making an Important/Urgent matrix has helped a little with prioritising. I still find it hard to work out how something can be both urgent and unimportant (the only thing on that part of my diagram is to darn my gloves – a stitch in time saves nine and all).
Maybe I’m getting a little better at living with the niggle of not being able to do anywhere near the things I think need doing – again, considering how essential it really is to fulfil every idea is helpful here.
What I certainly haven’t done is spend a day a week doing my mending; the mending ended up getting a day and a half. But I live in hope.
