Unfinished Ideas & Half-Baked Projects
A creative’s baggage
— ..you matter.
— Lessons Learned on a Homeless Adventure
— Slow progress on this Rubik’s cube can be felt, but not exactly seen.
— Scribbles
— Leader vs. Visionary..where do I fall? If at all..
— A Burdensome Backpack — where did all this stuff in my bag come from?
— The Alchemist and all it’s wisdom. Favorite book..or at least close.
— “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” A horse shit maxim..
— The Lion King changed my life.
— Jake Not From State Farm
— The Day the Ducks Came: Sun slips over the tree line and throws a blanket of light over Gods country.
— As a college grad, these are my confessions..
— Say Hi.
That’s the words, fragments and thoughts that were meant to be the starting point for a piece. Things I jotted down and haven’t circled back to, but cling to as if it’s my life’s work. Most of it won’t mean much to you, but trust me they were great ideas..for half a second. This isn’t the exhaustive list of things I’ve thought about doing. It’s merely the writing projects, but hopefully you get the point.
These like many before them just got hit with the Delete button.
Periodically I have found it healthy to sort through the clutter found in my journals, notebooks and Evernote. Spring clean the long list of ideas that all seemed exceptional at inception. One by one pick them up make the move to toss them in the trashcan — digital or otherwise. Just because it hurts to throw away does not mean it is meant to stay. Nearly all of them cause at least a slight wince on the way to the disposal. The real indicator is a sudden and sharp visceral reaction. A pull in both the head and the heart that whispers, “I absolutely have to do this.” A common, “But what if I want to do something with this later?” is simply insufficient. Those things never get circled back to. And even if for some reason they do, it would likely be better had they never been revisited.
The world was never changed by something someone eventually got around to. Dents in the universe can only be caused by ideas that pull at you with such force that getting around to them is an inevitability — not just a possibility.
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