…diary is something I started using at the beginning of this year, and as the year has progressed I’ve found it more and more helpful.
Patty, my sister, told me to write a list every morning - “write the things that need doing no matter how small, and tick them off as you go.”
So, for the first time this year I bought myself a page-a-day diary and I’ve been writing lists on it every day, carrying things over to the next day if I don’t get them done, as well as writing in the things I need to do in advance, like appointments on those days. It’s a great system.
A Busy week
It looked like I might have to miss this weeks blog as I have been so busy this week - I wrote “blog” on my list on Thursday…carried it over to Friday…Sat…it’s now 10:19pm and I’ve completed a painting that I wanted to finished for Monday, and as I have a workshop tomorrow, prepared for that, and had a class this morning that I also prepared for, I needed to do it today…tonight…
a few hours later and it’s done.
Normally I’d retire for the evening by now, I’m reading a good book at the moment “American Dirt” which will probably put me to sleep if I start now, and I need to stay awake until 12pm when I’m picking up daughter no 2 from a party.
The story of the Bison
I needed to paint a painting to replace one that sold in the salon.
“Paint a Bison”, said daughter no 1, so that’s what I did and enjoyed every minute of it too :)
It’s not a very exciting story but the painting itself is exciting which really is testament to the Old Artist’s Proverb - “It’s not what you paint, it’s how you paint it.”
