AW checkin penultimate Week 11

Gosh the week went by fast. I feel my blog is being neglected and I haven't really gotten around to looking at too many other blogs either. I think - oh no - the thrill of being a new blogger is gone. Maybe that has a little bit to do with it - it's not the addiction it was 8 to 12 weeks ago.

I recognize I just can't do everything that I want to do - it is something I am trying to come to terms with and set priorities and learn how to manage time as best as I can.
I know that I needed to catch up on some paperwork and get in place a tracking system for my to do items. I know one night this week I normally don't watch much tv but I just got sucked right into it. In fact, I did my daily lump on the commercial breaks - it was a tv with a little sucking face inside of it. The addiction to blogging just didn't pull me in that night. I also noticed this week that if I give into getting some other things done then I take away completely time to blog. A shift of season is an opportunity to re-balance - to break out of stagnation yes - but then also to teeter until balance is restored.

With the shift of seasons newly underfoot I feel a certain need to shift myself. I guess I do my shifting by cleaning, tackling procrastinated to do items, and sort of turning inward to envision what's next? It all seems to be coming at a time when the Artist's Way is winding down. I'll be so interested to see how we all will proceed after it's officially over. I really want to stay connected.

I am thinking about a few things to follow after the Artist Way process. What I seem to need most is a slow process of prioritizing and sticking with my projects through to completion. It's easy for me to become too scattered. Actually, these two books I want to take a look at - I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was : How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It and this book, The Renaissance Soul : Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One. Both of these books the library has so I am going to check them out. Then I think I may start following Sark's book Make Your Creative Dreams Real. I feel the need to keep following some book to help keep me on track. That is one thing I think this Artist's Way process has really helped me with - is staying on a track and not scattering myself away.

I keep writing my morning pages and doing my daily lumps. I will keep doing those. I read chapter 11 of the Artist's Way, but I haven't done any of the exercises. I also read chapter 12 this week. I guess I am ready to move on......teetering as I may.......

I went on an artist date this week to this store - Keshi. It was fun to look around. Their website is excellent. So even if you cannot go into the physical store location you can still take a look around as I did. Better get this posted before I edit it to death.......