I love creating...actually I live for it. My daughter
who is a wizard at marketing tells me ideas fall from my lips like I have
rolodex full just waiting to be used. While I may not totally agree with that,
I do tend to have a head full of creativity and I do take advantage of it often,
however.....I've discovered something. Never force yourself to create when your
heart isn't in it. Not long ago I tried for two days to finish a quilt top. It was going fairly
well and I stopped to take time out to run to the store. Two hours
and a tow truck later, my car was at the shop and I was back home. My heart and
mind weren't thinking about sitting down and concentrating on this creative bit
of stuff I had been working on earlier. I was determined to press on and pass
procrastination so I took a short nap and then went back to sewing. Lo and behold,
the next morning I looked at what I did and it was a mess. I had sewn things
together that made no sense. Later, I
sat down to finish my project and discovered this time I had added rows where
none existed. In short I had done about an hour of sewing that had to be taken
apart before I could complete what I was doing. My eyes got blurred and my mind
was mush.
The moral to this story is to not put yourself on
such a tight time constraint and to not force the creative juices to flow when
they are running low. Since the ability to create is usually there always remember that sometimes you need to give yourself a break and fill up your creative tank. The
project will wait until tomorrow, go take a long nap!
