What can you do when you do too much?
Stepping Back from the Mosaic Mess of Overachievement
6 Things I Learned When I Stopped Writing
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4 min readSep 7, 2019
There are days (weeks or months) where I get stars stuck in my eyes.
I get so high on the possibility of things that I forget to draw down the threads that connect those ideas to reality.
Inspiration is my catnip. If you gift it to me, I will bat it around for hours and weeks, heedless of the passage of time. This passionate engagement makes me a highly creative human, though it also has its drawbacks.
When I am dazzled by starlight, I overcommit myself.
At the end of last year, I thought I’d jump on the teacher-writer bandwagon. Nevermind that I have a fairly stressful day job, a writing practice, and a family/social life. No problem. I can throw launching a new business right on top of that pile.
Watch me spin plates like a master juggler. Hah! More like watch…
