YES! IT'S OPEN!!

I can't believe it's done.  After how long?  I was supposed to have opened this by April according to my vision board.  Oopsie.  But, it's ok.  I did it.  I DID IT!  Now, all I need to do is maintenance and seriously clean up and put everything away again.  It'd be nice to have the dining table back.  Not everythimg's like I'd like it to be, but...I'm used to that already.

I'll Write A Title For This Later

Have you seen the Wake Up Call for Artists post? In it, there are a lot of excuses to not beginning to create.  Procrastination.  What a killer.  I used to be a victim of it.  Then I realized, procrastinate as much as I wanted, time was going to keep passing and there was nothing I could do to stop it or hit rewind. (I've found myself honestly wishing for that remote control from Click).  I know I'm not the only one.

More Motivational Quotes & A Quiz

I needed to post, but it had to be a quick one.  So, I have a couple of more motivational quotes (having to do with creativity) and at the end I share a link for a quiz you should take if you feel you're lacking motivation.

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Motivational Videos

Today's post will be just of a two videos I found, just because one can never have too much motivation.

Of the two, THIS one is my favorite:

A Few Reasons To Buy Handmade

There are people that will spend hundreds of dollars on something just because it's X-brand, yet think twice about spending any money on a "trinket" they can "make themselves at home."  What people don't understand is that sometimes those X-brand items are made by people (that after a while, possibly resemble robots) in a factory (hello machines, chemicals, labor, waste?)  Handmade items aren't.  They're usually made by someone in their home or studio.  Yes some artisans use machines, but all of them take time and care creating each piece.  I hate to sound corny, but there's love in creating.  There's passion.  And there's this special care when you're creating something that just doesn't really exist in anything mass-produced in a factory.  

Not A Weekend Update, But A Celebrated Birthday

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My father passed away 20 years ago.  Today would've been his 67th birthday.  There were a lot of things we used to do as a family when he was alive, but when he passed away things changed a little.  Things were being done I guess out of habit or because it "had" to be done a certain way.  The fun was no longer in it.  My dad was a quiet man, but he liked having fun.  He was a prankster.  One day he came in with blood all over saying he was in an accident.  I was worried and my mother started freaking out.  He kept it up for quite a bit.  On a Halloween I remember there were these girls that came to out door trick or treating.  He stood against the open door shirtless with fake blood smeared on his chest.  He just looked off into the distance.  The girls were my age.  They kept their bags open while I threw in candy, but there eyes didn't leave him except for the quick second where they thanked me and step aside for the next girl.  All of a sudden, my dad pounces forward while yelling boo.  Those poor girls.  A couple of them took off leaving their bags behind.  The brave ones jumped back and then laughed.  First at the prank, then at the girls who ran away.  He was awesome.

Finding Your Passion

Finding motivation can be hard, but harder still?  Finding something your passionate about.  I once asked someone what he was passionate about?  He shrugged.  I thought he thought I was just asking expecting no answer.  So I asked, "No, seriously.  What ARE you passionate about?"  To which he answered "Nothing".  It kind of shocked me.  I thought everyone was passionate about something.  ANYTHING.  But here he was, saying he had nothing to be passionate about.  I thought maybe it wasn't that he didn't have a passion, but that he didn't know what it was.  I gave him a few questions to see if "nothing" was an accurate answer.

Finding Motivation

I've shared motivational quotes before but what about when you don't really have something actually motivating you?  I honestly don't think that can be.  How can someone have one or more goals yet not have any motivation?  I think there is but you just don't know it.  We all have a reason to do the things we do and to WANT to do the things we'd like to do.  

A Wake Up Call Video

I was browsing YouTube again (don't worry it was during my non-work time) and I saw this.  The audio is a little low, but I liked it anyways.  Enough to share with you because I've said some of those things and when I sat to work, I forgot almost everything and entered my own world where  was no longer tired.  =o)