Wow, what a week. It’s incredible how busy a person can be, when locked down at home…
KiaOracle is looking forward to some “down time” to do some creating this weekend.
After a crazy week at work, sometimes I have challenges in “getting creative” even though that is a major goal… My perfectionistic mind looks around me and says – wait a minute… It’s not time to have fun, until I finish… (insert never-ending list of household tasks here).
Ugh. I catch myself in that trap SO MUCH. I will allow myself some time to create “after” the laundry, or tidying the kitchen, or vacuuming…
What ends up happening?
Perhaps the laundry… The tidying… or the vacuuming…
Maybe.
Though, not the mindful moment I was so craving… before total exhaustion hits – and the day is over…
And at the end of the day, my area may look less of a disaster – but my mind is still tied up with worries and lists of things to do, and should do, and want to do… This – if left unchecked – is really really bad for my inner creative soul. It tamps down my ability to access that creative spark, because it gets crowded out of my life with “the never-ending list of stuff.” I find myself ending up only doing the list of things of things I must do that fit into the time I have… and I feel badly that I’m not creating when I want to, too… That eats at my “je ne sais crois” and makes accessing creativity just that much harder…
Not so good.
On the days that I am mindful about how I spend my time, and spend some moments during that time doing mindful things: my results are far better, and I am more satisfied with my “performance” or “output.” That may not be the most mindful way of putting it, but it is a feeling of accomplishment with how I have used my time that cannot be achieved by just tackling a list of objectives… and I somehow get more done, too…