A New Year? No Resolution? Why not a New Year's Theme?

Okay. Every eight weeks throw out five items; clothes, magazines, unfinished projects (or finish them, good for the ego.) Start now. This makes room for more; more writing ideas, nicer clothes, more topics to read, more new ideas in general ... . No more, no less.

A theme for the New Year? Yes, no goals too far down the road to frustration. A theme for the year, such as finish all unfinished projects? That works for me. I currently have seventy unfinished projects. Do one at a time. (Another theme for this business.) Do you have clothes that someone w/ money would not wear. Do you have uncomfortable clothes? Ditch them, and go to comfortable clothes. Do you have unfinished projects? Complete one at a time, the five. Question yourself. How can I use my time, M-Y time the most effectively. In writing we are becoming producers, not consumers. The mentality of the changing computer paradigm in the Info Age is to become productive. (Check out Seth Godin!) The business plan model is even shifting looking at the Stanford folk, et al. We are looking at "tribes" rather than demographics of a traditional nature, a swing/change to people orientation rather than product/service. What? Like say the Grateful Dead. The music products are one thing. The real money exchange-attraction is to be w/ the people in your tribe. Who would have expected it? Perhaps an example that manifests what is going on, although not "your tribe." Keep an open-mind. What other examples are there? Think. Stop and think. You get the idea though, yes?

Why business in a creativity/writing/music/art blog? Well, that is something to keep in mind. I have had a lengthy schedule of writing that I loved, although not my first time of figuring writing schedules. My "10 to 10" 12 hrs Mondays worked for quite a while. I crunched out ms. after ms. juggling where I could work effectively. Remember I had done the 3-5 pp. a night schedule strating off. I still agree w/ be slow to learn, and speed follows, as well as mastery after putting in the hours. A theme? Write ea. day like you were going to write forever? I use the word "po" to communicate the mindset. Say for example, Po: My theme is for the year produce pages regularly (Er go.) Place the idea in your mind's eye, your intuitive gut instinct. Works for you? Maybe a bad feeling? Need more time to think about it. Intruding thoughts; When am I going to get down to business w/ this idea? Hence, schedules for writing and as well, time schedules for doing the business part of it. The best and friendliest "advice," a model is to go threre hours in the a.m. for writing, then 3 hrs. in the pm for business. (This is from J. Penn, writer and on the pulse of today.)

Give yourself time to do business. Maybe the schedule is for five days a week, maybe three, maybe every day? Work from where you are? Have any more themes come up? Write them down. Then slap a fat "po" on them, and do some brain strorming. Dig in. You will love it. I like to top off changes w/ a meditation session, and a journal session or more. More people spend planning a party than they do planning their life. Use your advantage of thinking and scheduling. I like to compete, believe me. A difference might be that I compete against my own "self," my past. My past was absorbing hours of Gilligan's Island to learn, a pattern of writing stories. Embarassing now. Although indeed it was a past to grow out of and to a more exciting life. I ended up using the frustration to take up tech rock climbing for six years. It worked, finished school in th emeantime, and I fulfilled the "Do what is worth writing about, or write about what is worth doing."

My overalll theme was for last year "spirituality." You may want different themes for different situations, say five. And I so much remember my college roommate coming back from the tech building proud of his motto "Finish What You Start." He had ade silk-screening shirts. Too cool, like playing hackey-sac indoors in our apartment on "rainy days." Finish what you start? That had to have helped me a number of times, now though sounding too much like "Stewart Smalley." (Sat. Night Live. new age character). Okay more themes ideas.

Okay. Different themes ... ? Same theme for many different projects? Take what suits you, what's the best fit? I use something from my work to look at areas in your life. It is far from perfect, although it is a good model to start w/. The first claim is that nearly all of life's day-by-day baggage falls in one or more of the eight following "facets of your diamond." The eight are; spirituality, social, envrironmental, emotional, physical, financial, occupation/meaningful activity, and intellectual. Wow. Memorize and destroy. Maybe you can find your own? Follow suit. It is organizing, clearing a confusing mess, always welcoming here. Get the message from the mess though. So go out there and jam!

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