Creative Cogitation

Update June 23:  I came to real­ize I had a strong urge to cheat on my plan using my mobile (Black­berry) . I found myself reach­ing for it every­time I saw the red light flash­ing.  It was unintentional/automatic.  I have had to delib­er­ately not touch it.  So right now it is sit­ting face down so I can’t see the red light flash­ing, although I know it is…  The exper­i­ment con­tin­ues.  I think check­ing my com­mu­ni­ca­tions 2 times a day should be enough. I have just read in a blog  by Lisa Baron ethat I may want to put off the morn­ing check in until after I get some stuff done as part of a time man­age­ment strat­egy.  OK… Maybe I’ll give that a whirl or not.

The first cou­ple of days were bad.  I was def­i­nitely going through with­drawal.  I didn’t get any­thing done-I just sort of laid around and felt my way through it.  Like the urge to respond to the Black­berry, it felt odd not to enter my office even as the lap­top bea­coned and to limit the amount of time I spent doing the com­mu­ni­ca­tions thing.  I mean there is stuff going on… you know?  But the world did not explode because I did not find out about this or that immediately; I con­fess, I love twitter-I find out about so much faster than the eye-witness new­clones can relate it to me on the idiot box.

So yes­ter­day I actu­ally got some work done.  And my mind is now think­ing in terms of pri­or­i­ties instead of let­ting this machine move me around my day.  I will be launch­ing the project I started this week­end 100 paint­ings in 100 days soon.  But first I need to get some other stuff taken care of. 

(is the inter­net slow today or what?) Wait­ing for a page to load so I can copy stuff from it…

Cindy Lou Who, con­stant com­pan­ion in my office, who knows she can always get ran­dom atten­tion from me in here.

Any­way, you got any time man­age­ment tips that can be assim­i­lated by the artis­tic heart?  Have you made peace with your elec­tronic com­mu­ni­ca­tion junky mon­key?  Love to hear from you. 

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

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