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Mar
23
streamlining for slow
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stayed tucked in this weekend, the goal: to whittle down the mountain range of papers that are drowning me. yesterday i was relatively successful in that regard PLUS i almost finished the “base stitching” on autoquiltography one.
spurred on by yesterday’s progress, spent today weeding out emailbox. i have been drowning in digital paper. started the day with 496 emails in inbox (all read, just awaiting something-or-other from/by me), going to bed with a mere-but-still-too-many 79. outbox was even more full, and i didn’t finish with it. tomorrow will find me finishing up the sifting-through process with outbox then putting into place a brand, spanking new email system making it quicker and easier to reply, track, and file emails as needed/desired.
i don’t do new year’s resolutions because, well, each day is a new year for me. but last year i did vow to myself and put others on notice that come january 2008, we would be doing a brand-spanking-new dance. that i would be claiming a life of my own, spending time - nay, INVESTING time - in writing, stitching, shaping into existence some of these ideas and images i’ve carried around inside for so long.
if nothing else, i am a girl who is true to her word, and now that i’ve started on my projects, i am keenly motivated to streamline my life wherever possible to make more room for the pursuit of creativity. my spices, for example, are in alphabetical order so i can find them quickly. (not that i actually COOK that much, but you get the picture.) got an inbox that’s much shallower, and i vow that it will seldom (i am also a realistic girl) spill over the top.
slow cloth, slow clay, slow writing, and zip-zip-zip fast “infrastructure” deskwork. yes, that’s what i’m after.
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I think it’s always a process to find what is most important to us. Kudos to you for taking the plunge and staying true to yourself!
okay here I am reading along with the sense of mirror gazing again. In the past I have had an unfortunately cavalier attitude about organization. I considered it something “invented” by people who didn’t have anything more interesting or creative to do with their time. Now that I’m seeing how much organization helps me put the Ace back in Acey, I’m a much happier person. 2008 as the Year of Us … can’t help wondering where it will lead.
thanks, fran. i have to tell you that since i staked out time for my own self in 2008, it’s nothing short of amazing how everything just settled right into place and how motivated i am to get the things that HAVE to be done streamlined to give me more time to create.
acey, it is definitely shaping up to be quite the year, isn’t it?
Isn’t it great to have that sense of accomplishment by the end of the day? I swear I prefer to drop dead tired into bed feeling that things have been accomplished rather than spend a day inactive and therefore have nothing accomplished.