“Spend a few minutes sketching a list of activities you’d like to do ‘if only…” Distinguish between things you really want to do and effects you’d like to have. For example, maybe you really want to study Spanish, or maybe you just wish you knew how to speak or read it. The first desire is active and belongs on your list; you’d really like to do the activity. The second is passive; you wish you already had the benefit of the activity. It doesn’t belong on this list, unless you are willing to do the work to get the benefit.”
Marshall Cook, TIME MANAGEMENT
How would you categorize your daily list of activities? Are there things on your list of projects that you don’t really want to do, you simply want the benefit of them? They are the garnish on the plate of the artistic process - they’re a nice supplement, but they cannot exist without the art itself.
It takes intentionality to engage with creative projects on our own time - they don’t just make themselves. In this episode, we talk about some disciplines that can help us creatively engage and get moving on our “pet” projects.
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