Month: March 2010

There is an artist named Henry Darger that painted these most unusual paintings in his room in Chicago all his life and never showed anyone. Then he died and the landlady went in and the rest is history. Now is his famous and his work is sold all over the world. He never saw any of it. He was a recluse.

What a shame that he did not get to see what would have happened to him if he had ventured out into the world.
Don’t let that happen to you. You don’t know how your work may fit into the world.

I hate it when people say”I am not good enough.” How the heck do you know if you are good enough? Let me be the judge of that.

Feng Shui works because it makes order in your life. If you know where everything is in your house and where it goes, it will give you power. Power because you aren’t spinning your wheels looking for everything all the time. I just cleaned out my laundry room. I had all these boxes and suitcases and miscellaneous things stacked up and now they are all put away. Small thing, no big thing. I have space that did not exist before. Now I have a laundry room. I am going to do the rest of my house and my studio next. Now I have energy in my head to work clearly. I am proactive. Junky house you are 100 percent reactive. When you are reactive you are slogged down in every inch of your life.

I know people that have a lot of things in their house but it is not junky. They know where everything is. They are the super minds.
Me, I am not, so I need less things to distract me from where I am going. The pleasure of an ordered room is soothing and freeing

My head is s storm of ideas in the morning. I have had all night of being asleep (but figuring things out).  When the morning comes, it is pretty much a stream of new plans.

I almost always write in the morning after I first get up. The ideas are most fresh and I can still feel the results from mulling all outcomes over in my mind.
Some people take a long time to wake up and start living but not me.

Almost every organization book says to plan out your day the night before but I always do it in the morning. The night stew is way too valuable not to use as input for the morning planning.  It would be like throwing out the chicken stock you have made from scratch and making soup with water.  Use the stock.

Last night I had this idea to organize more than my basement. I also need to organize my head. Take all the things that do not have a useful purpose anymore. I was saving some pictures from my past before I was married. They had energy so I tossed them. My head was connected to old things and that needed to go. I need to have clear water and only one thing to focus on. That one this is right now. Here, now, what can I do now.

Don’t rest on your laurels . That was then and this is now

Having a spouse is a great wonder in life. You can tell them anything and they must listen or at least look like it. You know it really does not matter whether they are or not because if they aren’t at least you had a place to go.
Having a place to go is what we all need every day. Someone to talk to, a job to do. Isn’t it great when you realize that not only do you have a place to go but you are lucky enough to have someone who gives a rip about you.
I think about people who are widowers and wonder what kind of trauma that is. It must be like sleepwalking. Nothing would seem real for awhile but hopefully friends would move into a more important part of your life so you always have someplace to go.

Is the best time to jump on a train when it is standing still, or when is starts to move? You don’t really have time to wait ’til you feel unafraid. the train starts moving and you have to jump on or forget it.

When is the train starting to move in your life? Is it when you first get the idea or when opportunity strikes and you say, “Well, I could jump on now –  its starting to move. But what if I fall off and can’t make it?. What if I break my leg trying to get on?”

So what, you break a leg. Next time you will have the experience of running and you will know better how hard to run and jump. You will have invaluable experience for the next time. The only time to jump on the train is when it is moving slowly enough to make it. You just won’t know when that is unless you start running. Sitting on the side of the track trying to figure it out will not help you. Run and jump and see how it feels. You have to start running.  The rush you will get from trying to run, jump  and get on is fantastic.