I am lucky busy
ADB-160301#138
How did I get here?
Today, I’m supposed to speak at a local college about creativity, but there’s a huge winter storm coming. Tomorrow I’m supposed to go in for a root canal consult. I have multiple work responsibilities this week including performance review updates, stock video asset collection, voice-over talent selects, radio spot edits, micro-documentary reviews, and more. I’m behind on my Pitch Deck game, and have three books waiting to be picked up again:
- Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis;
- Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.; and
- Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson.
I have TV shows to catch-up on and friends to catch-up with. I have kids to raise, bills to pay, things to fix, organize, and clean up. I have a partner to talk to, to go for walks with, to plan more of the future with. I have a dog who might be pregnant. I have publishers to meet. I am lucky busy. I never have enough time or money, but here’s the secret: I never will. Instead of living in the future and bemoaning the present, better to live in the present and enjoy how lucky busy you are.
Daily creation, through All-Day Breakfast, is the one thing I make sure to protect (and complete) no matter how busy I am. I get up early, open up my iPad, and write something. Today I felt grumpy—an emotional hang-over from feeling sorry for myself all weekend. So I started writing about all the things I have to do—a whine list. But instead of feeling upset or overwhelmed, I felt privileged to have so much and be so busy. Gratitude, even for the things that annoy and stress me out, is good for perspective. Now if only I could remember this every day.
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