I love the fact that my husband and I (and my father-in-law) were able to get so much accomplished over our staycation that I wrote about last week. It allowed me to get back into my workflow without all those unfinished projects lurking in the background (and being stacked in boxes in the living room). My creative motor has been revving with new perspective.
Nature Knows Best?
Last week I mentioned an idea that I had about allowing my creative life to mirror nature. This idea has apparently been on my mind a bit as I also came across it in a draft of a letter I was writing to a penpal. I realize that, not only is this a feasible idea, it takes a lot of pressure off having to do all the things all the time. If I allow everything to have a season and not try to figure out how to do a little of everything every day, then life makes more sense to me.
Anybody else feeling this way? Or, am I the last person to figure this out?
Structure Without the Strain
That doesn’t mean that I am giving up on consistent action or habits. It just means that I intend to maintain the daily ones that help me have the energy and clarity of mind I need to do what I want to do. The other actions that relate more to actually creating will shift throughout the year as priorities change.
I feel like I sound vague, here. So, this is what I have in mind:
Since we’re currently in May and will soon be moving into the summer months, I intend to use this time be more social, to make connections, finish up smaller projects, and gorge on reading and learning new things. I feel like summer is a time of abundance and doing the necessary things to propagate continued existence.
In Fall, I will begin outlining and planning books for the next year. It is also a time of clearing things out such as selling inventory.
Winter is the time of writing. I don’t like to be out and about in the cold, anyway. The idea of a lovely hibernation where I write and prepare for the new year seems lovely.
Spring is the time of releasing new books and then shifting back into summer mode.
I have a more detailed plan, of course, but that is the overall idea. I would love this to be the structure for my life. However, we’ll see how putting it into action actually works out. Wish me luck.
Does anyone else have a plan like this? How has it worked out?
And, why didn’t I think of this last year?