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

Saturday, April 2, 2011

The Artist's Way ... Julia Cameron

I am reading The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and thought I would share some of her "rules." BTW - a great book. I started it almost 20 years ago and couldn't get into it. It's been sitting by my bedside all this time waiting for me to pick it up once again. Some would say that I wasn't "ready" before and now I am.

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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.