My Plate at the Moment.

Wow. Sometimes, when you grab life by the horns, it kicks you in the nut sack and says "don't you touch my freaking horns."

There is so much on my mental plate right now. I recently wrote about how you can tell what's important to you by what you actually physically do with the 24 hours you're given each day. There are so many things that I either want to do, or am about to do, but I haven't done any of them yet. It's like that point on a roller coaster right at the top of that first giant hill, when you begin to feel gravity's pull, but you haven't actually started to plummet downhill yet.

• I'm currently co-writing the pilot to a mini-series that I think will make an impression on many people. I plan to actually put pen to paper for the first time tonight.
   
• I've been commissioned to create an infographic as a freelance job. I plan to begin moving the needle on that tonight as well.
   
• I've also been commissioned to design a logo for a newly opened online store for baby things.
   
• Yet another entrepreneur friend has asked me to be his go-to guy for all creative projects taken on by his up-and-coming marketing agency. We're still talking numbers.
   
• I've been speaking with a friend about adding illustrations to the posts on his hilariously clever tumblr page.
   
• I have received a wealth of confirmation that my daily drawings could turn into something big. They've made it to the front page of Reddit on more than one occasion. I'm currently working on figuring out how to make them make me money.
   
• I'm helping more than a few of my friends and family figure out how to see their own entrepreneurial dreams come to fruition.
   
• I'm still planning on painting a series of paintings for my nephew. Just because.

I think that's it. There's probably more. But I think that's it.

In order to handle doing all of these things, though, I've had to narrow my focus. I've made some changes in how I spend my time and where I pour my interest, so make room time-wise and brain-wise for the things I want to include in my life.

I'm taking a break from social media right now, and I won't be doing any more daily drawings until I can cater them towards whatever plan I come up with to monetize them. As I continue to make progress in each of these ventures, I'll likely post them here.

I find that I normally only blog when I learn something, and I expect to learn a lot once all of these things jump from my head to my hands and start happening.

This is all for now,

-R.

TIL...

It's 7:12 and I've been working from home for about an hour.

I woke up at 6 this morning to work, because I told a co-worker yesterday that I had hit a landmark on a project, that I actually hadn't hit. But it needs to be presentable by 10 today for a meeting, so I got up early to finish it up.

I've been able to force myself to wake up at the butt crack of dawn in the past, if what I was waking up for was extremely important - like a mission trip out of the country, or my high school girlfriend's mom's legendary Saturday morning garage sale of 2005.

...or, y'know, something like finishing up a project that I said was already finished.

What I'm getting at is that I thought I had trouble waking up early in the mornings, but I guess the root of the problem is that I don't put enough importance on the things I would wake up for.

I've been saying I need to cram a meditation, workout, or creative endeavor into my pre-work day, which means waking up butt early to do it. But I guess those three things just aren't as important to me as doing overdue design work.




But seeing how easy it is for me to wake up early for a specific task gives me hope that if I can figure out a way to convince myself that meditation is more important, I might actually be able to wake up early every morning to do it.

I'm batman

Yep, I made a batman costume out of long underwear and wore it to work.