Week One, Day 5

Here's the thing: God has blessed me with a truly unfair amount of creative gifting... and absolutely zero ambition. I'm nearing middle age (or am I there already?!), have two children, one husband, a cat, some responsiblilities, and for as many hobbies as I like to do, I have an inversely proportionate amount of motivation. Every time one of these scraps of genius hit the public I hear things like: "Oooo, you should sell those!" "Why don't you have your own business?" "You could be making a lot of money!" etc etc ad nauseum. Why do I not follow any of this shrewd advice? Laziness, maybe? Busy-ness, partly. Apathy, definitely.
So dawns a bright new year, unless you're Mayan, and I've decided to try my hand at success. Since creative writing is one of the things I like to dabble in, I figured a blog to track my upward climb is just the ticket. Besides, once I'm fully successful I can publish it and make a movie.
Yes, I will admit, people are laughing at me. Mocking, in fact. Just today after lunch, OtherHalf and I were enjoying a peaceful moment alone and I said (whined?) "I'm tired. I don't want to be successful anymore."  The fact that I'm merely five days into my journey is no reason for the snide comment and laughter that ensued. Apparently I have a bit of a reputation for ummm.... giving up. Quitting, in fact. (Insert sigh of shame.) It's just that sometimes things get really boring and something else looks far more interesting and so I do the new thing and let the old thing do whatever it is discarded things do. Rot. Attract dust. Get tripped on. Wait, this is beginning to sound like a description of my basement.

So. Game Plan. Priority #1: the S word.
Schedule.
I don't know if you know this about creative people - we really tend to dread Organization. Schedules. Anything remotely resembling someoneorsomething telling us Whatwemustdonow or Whatwemaynotdo. However, I can see that part of my lack of current success is due to the fact that while I can have ideas 'til the cows come home, I also need to save some time for the execution of said ideas.
That being said, my mental schedule is five days behind already. That's why this blog post is titled "Week One, Day FIVE" instead of it's intended name of "Week One, Day ONE" or perhaps: "The Journey Begins" or maybe "Here I Go Again".
I think I do tend to set myself up for failure - take a look at my catering company's name: "Flash in the Pan". I named it that on purpose, knowing full well that it was likely to be a flash in the pan. Which seems like a terribly clever cooking play on words. My signature dish is Greek flaming cheese. A literal flash in the pan. I have never made it. Stop snickering.
Anyhow, focus. Priority #2: Enlist Help.
Motherdear is on the way. She will be washing dishes while I attack a huge amount of cooking this afternoon. She does not know this yet.
Which brings me to Priority #3: Take Care of Responsibilities
It's not that creating a painting (for example) requires a vast amount of time, but once I start I just don't want to stop. Before I know it, it's well past suppertime and OtherHalf, GiantBoy and Tweenie are gawping away like hungry robins and I've low-blood-sugared and the meal will take an hour to prepare. So, I plan to cook and freeze as much food as possible in order to maintain a respectably healthy diet, budget and sanity.

Well, I'm off to a roaring start. This posting alone has taken me over eight hours to write, since I started it, paused to have coffee, cook, freeze, eat, go to Bible study... and now I scramble to finish it so I can go to bed. And it's only five days late.   My newest invention is apparently about two years late, since I was in the process of drawing up the design for it when my best friend gave me one for Christmas. Phooey. Luckily I have another invention rattling around my brain, halfway to the Dragon's Den already!
But I digress. Something tells me I had more priorities to list, but I'm tired of lists for today (got to cross off all but two of the items on my "to do" list this afternoon - then I added two extra things that I'd already done and crossed them off too; that counts, right?) so I'll end on that note.
I'm scheduled to blog again tomorrow, so I'll see you in three days time, tops.