Wednesday, 27 July 2011

division of labour - where next?

Its not going to happen just yet.  But I can feel where the division will be.  I am thinking and have been thinking for a while that my blog needs to change.  I have this whole creative side which needs to go fully express itself as it is, meanwhile I have this practical side that is all about the getting things done. I am myself in both these roles, but my actual blog is some sort of strange hybrid of both.  Perhaps it does reflect who I am - as a strange hybrid person.  But at the same time.  I don't know.  I think that its morphed from where it started into something else.  With my life now taking off in interesting directions - there is my art, my portraits, my creative business and thoughts and ideas associated with that, and yet the perenial, 'how to get stuff done' the day to day quest to manage my life,  achieve my dreams and my budget and my projects the keeping myself on track and that whole 'process' stuff.  Well this is finding its fruition in the potential role I have coming up in the company People Who Do.  I have this fantastic opportunity there, both on a professional and personal level to create a fulfilling and potentially lucrative and yet, crucially, part time, career.  I need and want to focus on that too.  My original blog title of Get Stuff Done fits so well with this side of my new career.  As part of my training and as a prerequisite to my being employed by PWD, I will be taken through their process, which I will then be required to implement in my life, then further to that, I will need to teach others this process and follow up on them implementing it in their lives.  Ultimately my role will be to teach and provide back up and follow up for their process and  also (again crucially) to seek out and bring in new business - as part of my role and in order to achieve the potentially lucrative side to this opportunity.  I need to do this.  Because if I can. When I can. When I am able to do it, I can work part time for a properly able to support myself income.  Which means that I can do work that fits around looking after my son, and allows me time and space to continue to develop my art business and practice.  And ideally to travel and do things like buy a horsebox roaming art studio and all. 

Oh and there is the Yoga.  Which fits into both sides marvellously.  Ah, brilliant.  Love Yoga. 

So as i said, its not happening just yet,  But it will. And this blog will return to source and be all about process and getting stuff done.  And the whole achieving dreams too.  Lets face it, what's the point of being organised and productive, unless you are moving in the direction of your dreams.  But a how to. an exploration of that how to, and also, of my journey towards being a person who does. 

I have long wanted a full on visual, poetic and beauteous blog where I can wallow in artistic ideas and influences and dreams and inspirations.  This blog is halfway there, but it is halfway practical too.  Not that my artisitc creative blog will avoid the process of creation or of being a creative business.  But it needs to fly free I think.  Somehow.

Anyways these are my musings on what and where I am going these days. 


And the Yoga. Its the union of everything isn't it?  xxx peace xxx

2 comments:

{furi kuri} travels said...

I think your blog is beautiful as it is - as a reflection of you! Aren't we all just a hybrid of various interestes and ideals flushed up against practicality and logic? A yin and a yang that as you said, Yoga perfectly joins.

Don't be too hard on yourself. I know I feel that my blog isn't consistent, or fulfilling my 'voice' enough, though that 'voice' has many different areas it likes to explore! Merging it all together I think is a journey in itself!

I'm excited to see where this path will take you and how things will transform around here. xx

Alison said...

I think you're taking the right path Moyra. It will probably feel more natural to have separate blogs. It certainly is better from an SEO perspective. Good luck ;)

Ali x