Time is a limited resource...

...and, like all resources, should be spent wisely. This is something that I need to keep my focus on in the coming days. What is the best way for me to spend my time - will my actions help me move incrementally towards my goals, or away from them? Shall I distract myself from my frustrations with mere entertainment, or will I look inward and pull from deep down the resolve to stay focused, ever moving forward on my right path?

Lessons Learned

Lately it seems I've been learning some things about life that I probably would have learned earlier, if only I'd been paying attention. Now that I am (paying attention, that is), I thought I'd catalog my findings as they come about. Without further ado, here is Life Lesson #1:

~If you consistently underestimate how much time it takes to get ready or get somewhere, you will always be late. Denying the length of prep time won't make the clock miraculously stop for you.

Tiredness

I haven't been posting consistently lately. Between work drama and home drama, I haven't been making the time for things I NEED to do for myself. Like yoga...art...eating healthy....Don't even ask me why I'm still awake right now, I should be in bed. Oh schedule, where have you gone?

Speed of Time

This week's going by pretty fast. Why does time speed up, going faster and faster each year; they say youth is wasted on the young but maybe it's time that's wasted on them. The closer you are to the end, the quicker it goes by. My birthday's coming up in a couple of weeks, it always makes me think about how much I haven't done yet.

This weekend, I need to make time for my art....Haven't had much "quality time" with my paints or collages in weeks.

Use your ninja training

Today my father said something to me I find hilariously coincidental: "Use your ninja training." Now, he has no idea I have a blog with Ninja in the title (or a blog at all, perhaps he may not even know what a blog is). Of course he was joking. We were talking about my struggles as a night owl to wake up early with the rest of the working crowd. I literally feel like my brain does not turn on before 10 am. Anyway he was talking about structure and discipline, which is one of the things I was thinking of when I named this blog. They are traits I haven't developed much, and would very much like to, in the way that it would help me to accomplish the things I'd like to do with my life. To have a schedule of when I'm going to work on my artwork, and stick to it, not to mention my other goals.

I'm trying to shift my schedule back, wake up & get to The Job earlier, so as to leave earlier and have more day left in my day. As someone told me recently, you can get a lot more done between 4 & 8 pm, than between 6 & 10 pm - it's just a psychological thing, I guess. Maybe have more time for my art. I haven't had much energy to work on anything in days. I'm actually in bed right now and it's not even 10 pm yet! (That is soooo not me!)