Do You Think Too Much?

Sometimes Monday Morning can be the time for a new start. A new day.

Other times Mondays can be a pot of confusion, like, “What was I thinking/doing?”

Earlier this morning I THOUGHT I was opening up/adding to my One Drive, the likes of which I don’t quite understand. Now I have all kinds of documents and folders on my desktop … Did I do that?

After a weekend with the family I’ve been having second thoughts about one of my new products for the craft fair. Of course, I’ve made 10 of them already — 10 with the same possible flaw.

I’m looking at a second item I designed for the craft fair and am having second thoughts about that.

I also slipped and fell off a second step of a spiral staircase over the weekend … I’m just fine, but a lightheaded now and then, and this Monday morning l wonder if I’ve scrambled a few eggs up there.

Why all this confusion and self doubt?

I truly am a believer in Creativity (duh) and doing what you enjoy. If you want to make money off it, that’s alright too. If not, still do what feels good.

But what if after all this time you’re not sure it connects to the universe?

I mean, does anyone care if you’ve changed a design on something you’ve created? Does anyone care if you go back through your inventory and recheck and redo half of it because of some real or perceived flaw?

Okay. So you don’t do crafts. How about your other intentions? Reorganizing a closet or rewriting a whole chapter in your latest novel or researching why your favorite plant is suddenly drooping.

What did you do?

And why is so hard to change?

And if you do change, how much should you change?

What ever happened to “I’m alright just the way I am”?

And, most importantly, why am I wasting valuable air time worrying about stuff that, for the most part, doesn’t matter?

I have a few friends on social media that are constantly posting their amazement/fear/disgust with current social and political stances. I get it. I am upset at times too.

But it seems that’s all they can focus on, all they can think about. It seems they have lost the ability to be Creative.

Now, maybe some leave social media and paint a sensational landscape or write a great novel or quilt a fantastic piece for their bedroom. Maybe they drink champagne with their significant other or vacation to Maui or enjoy an old fashioned bike ride in warm weather.

We’d never know, for all we see and hear is their amazement/fear/disgust with current social and political stances.

Maybe that’s the benefit of doing something Artsy. It’s redirecting your energy and aura towards something that is you and that no one can change. It’s an outlet for all the crap that upsets you and the magic that fills you and silences the prattle and redirects precision to a place where it feels really good.

So on this jumbled, scattered Monday morning, I am hoping you find your calm center sometime today and fall into it’s hole.

The world will right itself, with or without you.

If you want to be a part of the righting, share your knowledge and creativity and magic with those around you.

And don’t worry about the stones popping off your newly created bookmarks.

That’s what they invented Gorilla Glue for ….