When you are working full time, you think that if you were unemployed you would finally have time to do everything you've never had time to do as an employed person. You'd try all of those crafts you pinned on Pinterest, you'd repaint and redecorate your house like a rockstar, you'd read all of the books ever written, and you'd get into great shape by exercising every day.
When you do stop working, you soak it up. You sleep in. You start that Netflix show you never were able to finish when it originally aired. You browse Pinterest for inspiration.
Then one day you wake up (at 11am) and realize your day is half gone already, and the remainder will quickly disappear with the rest of the Ugly Betty marathon that is bound to take place. You settle in with your cheesecake that you have eaten almost entirely alone because everyone else is at work and you can't bring yourself to go to the store to find real food. You think about going for a run, but there's so much time today that you can definitely do that later.
You decide to look at Pinterest for inspiration, and someone has posted a picture in beautiful typeface that reads:
I still find each day too short for all of the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
Then one day you wake up (at 11am) and realize your day is half gone already, and the remainder will quickly disappear with the rest of the Ugly Betty marathon that is bound to take place. You settle in with your cheesecake that you have eaten almost entirely alone because everyone else is at work and you can't bring yourself to go to the store to find real food. You think about going for a run, but there's so much time today that you can definitely do that later.
You decide to look at Pinterest for inspiration, and someone has posted a picture in beautiful typeface that reads:
I still find each day too short for all of the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
You re-read it a few times and then you shake your head. On the contrary, lately your days are much too long because you've only had one thought: being unemployed with no structure is very uninspiring.
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Being married to a man who makes music for a living has taught me a lot about inspiration over the years. Very few times has he started a project feeling inspired. There's usually a looming deadline that forces him to show up, and only after he's been working on it for awhile does inspiration start to hit.
I don't have deadlines. However, I can wake up in the morning and ask myself what I want to accomplish today. I can look at this expiring laundry list of things I said I would do and actually do them. Taking the wise words of someone who has dealt with this long before me: eighty percent of success is just showing up.
I don't have deadlines. However, I can wake up in the morning and ask myself what I want to accomplish today. I can look at this expiring laundry list of things I said I would do and actually do them. Taking the wise words of someone who has dealt with this long before me: eighty percent of success is just showing up.
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