Blogging And My First 'Biggish' Mistake...

I’ll cut right to the chase:   I’m not going to blog about this 21 Day Productivity Challenge every day.   Please...who was I kidding?   

The From Busy to Happy Challenge is fantastic...and I recommend it.    It’s something I do want to share when it's over, but I’m way too new at this to do it now.    And here’s how it started going down:

Day 1:  Successfully blogged about Day 1 (Revamp your morning schedule).   Woo!   I’m a blogger!  This is awesome.

Day 2:  Did my coursework for the Day 2 challenge (Staying Present)…then didn’t get around to blogging about it—because I wanted it to be the thoughtful and I had a birthday party to attend.   Solution:  I make my own schedule now.   I'll do it in the morning!

Day 3:   Oh crap!   I didn’t blog about Day 2…now I have to blog about Day 2 and Day 3?  And I have a cold? I know…I’ll blog about Day 2 later and sleep off this cold.  Then I’ll do the Day 3 coursework tomorrow.   I’ll just stay a day behind.   Yeah, that’s the ticket.

Day 4:   Crikey! Now it’s Day 4 and I didn’t blog about Day 2 -- because I really wanted to blog about the art I’m working on.   But I didn’t do that either because I promised to blog about Day 2.   Day 2!  Day 2!  Blog about Day 2!  Aaaand now I haven’t done the Day 3 coursework.   I’ll wait and do it all this weekend!  Boom.

Day 5:  Holy smokes!  It's the weekend.  How am I going to catch up and blog about Days 2-5 now?  And blow my nose and hack up a lung?   *Ding* Is that the Day 6 challenge in my inbox??   ::crickets::

So there ya go.   Week one a basic fail…but successful in the lessons learned.  I hope some of the new bloggers in my circle will relate!   It's a challenging start...and when we’re all a huge success we’ll look back and laugh at this, right?   If I don’t fail some while building this empire, how legit will I be when it's time to give back?   Yes, I said empire.   And yes, it made me feel as nauseous as it did you.    Sorry.

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All that said, here is the progress I promised on the painting.  They all start this way.   THE ART is what really drives me and I cant wait see where this one goes!  

The joy of this method of painting is that there is no plan going in.   It all just happens.   At this stage, I can still choose which side is up!  I see everything from a cowboy and a crowd of forlorn folks...to some truly funky animals in this piece.    Maybe it will be all of those things.   Exciting!

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My PERSONAL challenge for this week is just to blog every day and make this about what feels natural.   I want to get to the part where I can see and share the projects YOU are working on…the part where I get to give back.   So the sooner I get these kinks ironed out, the sooner I get to do that!

On that note, tomorrow is a brand new week!  :fizzle, fizzle::

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