You have no shortage of creative ideas that would be really fun. You collect these kinds of shiny objects, and other people give them to you all the time. But the fact that cat sweaters would be a really fun and unique business (and that the website and socials would be SO CUTE) doesn’t make it a great business idea. So which business idea is the one you should invest your effort in?
It was a faded, discolored, shattered, fragile, dilapidated dream dress. And I wanted one. I think it’s my favorite project to date, partly because of the epic timescale. I fell in love with it in 1996, and made it in 2013. Yep, seventeen years from initial inspiration to completion. That’s often how it goes.
A few years ago I watched in bemusement as a group of strangers speculated about Cathy Hay on the Internet. My perceived character, my work, even my age was up for discussion. Luckily, someone had hard intel to share on the last point: “Hay is in her fifties,” they declared.
My friend gifted me a handmade blanket. I appreciate the work in it, the care in it, and the love in it. But never more so than when my world was falling apart with COVID and anxiety a couple of days ago, and I was clinging to that blanket like it was my last scrap of proof that the world is a kind place. (I’m melodramatic when I’m ill.)
I’m sorry, Nami. I have done you a grave disservice.
“Lift your toes,” he said.
What?
“I know it sounds like I’m trying to be a smart ass. Toes are the furthest part of our anatomy away from the head. It literally gets you out of your head. As you lift your toes, your awareness travels down to your toes and away from the head.”
And you know what? It worked.
This New Year feels different. It feels like there’s hope. We can look back, learn lessons, and use them to build back better, and I’m no exception to that. So as the year turns and my voice slowly heals, it’s time to use it to tell my truth.
You know you ought to be working on it, but there it still sits, in a bag/on a shelf/in the corner, looking at you. You know the deadline is approaching. Your project keeps whispering to you about it. You know it’s going to be a last minute nightmare, or worse, a missed opportunity. So how do you break the standoff?
