Staying Focussed Amidst Chaos

"Well, I finally did it" this simple statement can be applied to so many recent accomplishments in my life. I graduated from college (after a very long time away from school), I've set up/built my web site, created social media accounts to help generate business, learned how to use  the Creative Cloud suite of tools (OMG, there should be a warning for new users, "This product will consume many hours of your life!") All this has felt like chaos and as I take steps towards becoming financially independent, and a contributing member to our household funds, I keep reminding myself to stick to the list. Or in pirate speak, "stick to the code". Since I'm not a pirate nor do I play one in real life, I guess I must continue to keep my daily to-do list, sigh. Here's the thing about to-do lists; I don't like them, I think they're boring, and they make me want to pull my hair out. However, they do work. Shhhh don't tell my husband I just admitted that. Here's another little secret for you, I pretend to be a pirate when I'm working on my list.......where's the rum?

For awhile my list has been more like a jumble of runaway thoughts and ideas all focussed on being an artist. As I fine tuned and changed ideas to goals and untangled thoughts I realized, gulp, the leap of faith I'd need to take. I also realized I was already an artist, have been my entire life. What I was finally ready to do was to share my art with the world. Scary thought right there. We only get one shot at life and I say lets be happy while we're here. For me that means creating art and yes, sharing it with the world. I still have much more to-do on my list and I'm sure there are things I haven't even thought of yet. Stay tuned for more as I work my way through my list and the chaos it sometimes becomes..............

So with my list by my side the next box to check off is: write first blog post.