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Absolutely
IS THAT NOT WORTH EXPLORING?
Dear Ones -
Yesterday I posted a message about not giving up on your daydream, and a lovely follower of this page asked what you should do if you have "too much family stuff" going on in order to live your dream?
In other words, what if you are simply too busy?
Please, please, please read this beautiful comic for a simple and inspiring answer to that question.
http://bit.ly/1Mrv45A
The final picture makes me cry every time.
This comic was drawn by an artist named Gavin Aung Than, but the words are those of the British classical pianist James Rhodes — a passionate and self-taught performer, who (like so many creators) is constantly being approached by people who say, "I would love to play the piano, but I don't have any time.)
But what if you could find 40 minutes a day? What if you could borrow those minutes from the time that you normally spend watching your favorite TV show, or hanging out on social media?
Back in my twenties, I once complained to a successful older woman artist that I had no time to write, and she said, "What's your favorite TV show?" I replied, "The Sopranos!" She said, "Not anymore, it isn't. Give yourself back that time. Turn off your TV."
She was right. So I turned off my TV. And I STILL haven't seen the last three seasons of The Sopranos. But since that conversation, I have written seven books.
By the same token, I must admit that I always smile when somebody gets on this Facebook page to tell me that they don't have any free time in their lives to be creative. As much as I LOVE to see you all on this page, my first reaction to such a statement is always to say, "Why don't you start by signing off Facebook right this minute?"
If you have enough free time to get on Facebook and tell me that you don't have any free time, then you have some free time.
Forty minutes a day.
Try it.
If not forty, then try thirty.
What would happen if you committed yourself to that time? What if you used it to create, or to meditate, or to exercise, or to volunteer, or to dream...or even to just devote some serious single-minded attention to the process of making an escape plan — such that, five years from now, your life looks entirely different than it looks today. In other words — what could YOU make out of your life in an extra forty minutes a day? Might that be worth exploring?
Remember that most of the beautiful things that have ever been created in this world were created by people who didn't have enough time, didn't have enough money, didn't have the right materials, didn't have the right contacts....but they somehow did the work anyway. In their basements, in a spare closet, in a coffee shop, in a hospital room, during their commute...they did the work, anyway.
When it is done for love, people always manage to find the time.
ONWARD, my beauties!
Onward.
LG
(from Elizabeth Gilbert's FB)
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P.S. Do check out the Zen Pencils cartoons, I think you'll like them
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Yes, I proofread now and then, not professionally, though :)
You are most welcome! My main journal is on LJ (same username), and I back it up to DW periodically--so if you want posts on a more day-to-day basis, you can take a look at LJ.
As to the article--as you say, her main point is not new but she has certainly phrases it well.
Best of luck with all your projects! There's also a good lecture/video by Stephen Covey on the same subject, have you read/seen it? "Put the big rocks in first"