I love the life style, the routine. I love going out for lunch, going out for dinner after work, having a drink after work, hanging around the a large bunch of people every day, being busy everyday but at 5pm, dropping it all and going home. I love free evenings and WEEKENDS! Omg, weekends, are amazing! I don't miss assignments at all. Not one bit! I also like how precious free-time becomes, and how easily it fills up with events and friends and family.
I am, however, finding it difficult to make the time to sit down and make. Which is a bit of a problem with an exhibition in 8 weeks!!! Every weekend I set time aside for making in my diary, usually a 4-5 hour block. But things like lunches crop up, or a walk with a friend, or a brunch that turns into a long gossip session. And then I get home, and I'm tired, so I need to sit down and chill out for a bit, and then, of course, its nearly dinner time, so I 'don't have enough time to get anything decent done' and then its time to go out or to bed! And I've done nothing. And then the next weekend comes around, and my exhibition is one week closer, and I'm still on square one!
I know that all I need to do is sit down and do it....and actually keep the time I set aside FREE for making jewellery, rather than accepting other plans. But other plans just seem so much more attractive than sitting down in the garage by myself!!
Thats where the self-discipline comes in doesn't it.
Yes. Perhaps I've been subconsciously waiting until the deadline is looming closer and closer...get some time-pressure to fuel my creativity.
I know what I'm making, << here's a picture of the collage I'm going to turn into a necklace :)
I just have to go down and do it! Oh, and buy some metal! I seem to have run out...which is not ideal!
And this time, the mechanisms WILL work!!!
