Finishing with an Hour to Spare...: February 2011

Sunday, February 20, 2011

don't forget design!

I have started looking at my portfolios, beginning with the one I work with the most - my graphic design work. I work in graphic design everyday, have collected a very large sampling of it all and yet I have not put it together cohesively, to show. SO, with that said I now have an on-line portfolio with a sampling of my samples. I learned how to slideshow in a blog and kept it very simple so as to highlight the work.

Take a peek:

www.cathyparkerbreese.blogspot.com

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I have ideas. I have goals. Lots of ideas and lots of goals, maybe too many of both! The pressure always seems to be to finish the projects already begun and to finish the ideas swishing and swirling around in my head. So, of course, I came up with ANOTHER idea. One project on my list is to create a blog and learn about Web 2.0 which will put my name "out there" as an artist. With this newest idea/goal in mind, I am going to try an "experiment" using a concept I read about quite a while ago but it's stayed with me - it's so simple, basic & adaptable to my list of "to-do's" and I could conceivably FINISH. Richard Carlson in his book Don't Worry, Make Money wrote:

"Experiment with the One Hour Solution"

"... As an experiment, I suggest the following strategy...you must actually spend a full-un-interupted hour, each and every day doing the critical inch of that business. (My choice of a business would be ME, becoming a real illustrator and writer). You must spend an hour without fear! You must not worry about the outcome, about what others are thinking about you, about past failures, about the fact that you don't have very much time, or about the fact that what you are doing isn't in your nature, or anything else. If the most important part of the business is making phone calls, then you must spend the better part of your hour making those calls. You don't have to spend a minute longer than the agreed-upon, but for this experiment to be given a chance, you must give it an honest hour. I (R. Carlson) predict that if you pick a business that you love, and faithfully spend your hour doing the key parts of the business (not simply busy work), that within two years you will be well on your way to complete financial independence...."

So, with this new idea in mind I am going to try to spend an hour a day, finishing.