The daily grind

I’m finding my artistic inspiration and entrepreneurial motivation, lately, to be unreliable, and predictably inconvenient. For some reason, while I’m here at “the job” from 6am until 6pm I’m VERY motivated and even anxious to work on LittleLDS or other Tyed Art projects. In fact, my ideas tend to distract me from my work at “the job.” I’ll be sitting there working when all of a sudden I have an idea for an image that would look great on the tyedart.com website, or I’ll suddenly get a strong desire to illustrate one of the LittleLDS pages for CD#4. Of course, I CAN’T work on that stuff while I’m at “the job,” so I do what I’ve always done. I write down the idea in my Brain Vomit book or on my “to do” list, and put it back on the mental shelf to be visited later. The idea tickles my brain for hours. That’s the best way to describe it. It’s not hammering on my mind and giving me a headache. I’m perfectly capable of focusing on my work, but I don’t always WANT to ignore the idea. That’s the very nature of the beast though. It’s not necessarily annoying because it’s a GOOD idea, but because I can’t do anything about it, it does start to become a bit frustrating.

One would think that all this pent up inspiration and frustration would cause me to experience total uninhibited flow by the time I’m able to work on it at home. But, no….not lately. For a while now, when I get home all I want to do is vege-out. I’m in a funk and I need to snap out of it and get back on the horse. I need to give myself a schedule for completion of CD#4. I’ve done it before and I can do it again. It’s weird though, I think, that somewhere between getting out of work, the 30 minute drive home, and arriving in my driveway, I lose all desire to switch back into the driven and motivated President of Tyed Art, Inc. All day long I conceptualized, plan, and psych myself up for a good productive evening just to get home and fizzle out. Weird. Hope this funk doesn’t last long. I think it’s probably time I re-listen to Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and recharge my business battery. Maybe a little “War of Art” by Stephen Pressfield wouldn’t hurt either. I need to recalibrate.

Fortunately, tomorrow is a virtual Friday since the actual Friday this week will be a day off from “the job” due to Nevada Day. I’m looking forward to a long weekend. I’m actually hoping to really be able to get a lot done on CD#4. If nothing else, I’d like to add more Thanksgiving holiday coloring pictures to my November line up for free coloring pages on LittleLDS.com. It’s a new feature I’ve added in hopes of drawing more people to a “living” and changing website. I learned once in a seminar that people tend to revisit websites when they know it’s going to be different later. I know I fit that description. I’m hoping that rotating new holiday coloring pages on my site and offering them for free that I’ll get a great viewer base and perhaps more talk generated about the website.