When You Find Yourself In A Slump

Sometimes you start doing something and you're just rocking at it.  Be it crafting, writing, exercising, whatever.  But then, something happens:  you find out you're out of glue and it's gonna be days before you can get to the store, you get writer's block, or you just feel burnout.  It's a little harder to get started again.  I think re-motivation is harder to find than the initial motivation.

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:

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)

Weekend Update - 3/22/2014

This week has been a slow one for NE-Things, but that's nothing new I guess.  I did some work on Jack & Justine and posted a word count desktop wallpaper for sale on Sellfy.  I've been able to reorganize Ínarú and make the collection a little more cohesive for me than it was before.  When I did the original sketching for Ínarú I had two pieces that I sketched but never did because I wasn't sure how I was going to make them.  

Quotes To Inspire & Motivate

More quotes I've found on the web:

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Seven Steps to Reaching Your Goals

In an previous post I mentioned having created a vision board and within it I had my goals for NE-Things.  When I created goals before I wasn't exactly reaching them, but I wasn't exactly organized either.  This time around, I created SMART goals:

S - specific  (not "I want to be happy." but "I want to become a successful suspense/mystery/thriller writer.")

M - measurable  ("For me, successful means I would have sold 500 copies.")

A - attainable  ("How can I reach this goal?  What are the steps I need to take?")

R - realistic  ("Am I able to work towards this goal?  Can I actually dedicate time for this?")

T - time based  (not "Someday I'll reach this goal." but "I want to reach this goal in two years.")

A Different Kind Of Post

I wanted to write a little something about what I shared with an acquaintance.  I'll call her Sally.  Well, Sally and I are not exactly acquaintances that just met, but we're also not exactly friends.  We worked together many, many years ago and kept in contact through Facebook.  There's nothing more than the usual interaction within the posts and photos.  Sometimes, we communicate through the chat.  Usually just to touch up on something we may have read in the news feed.

Well recently she wrote me just to ask how I keep going.  Writes that she knows I have my child and that should be reason enough, but how do I keep going?  At first I had no idea what she was talking about.  I even want back through my profile page to see if I can figure out what she was talking about.  But I had to ask her to clarify.  Sally reads my posts, reads about the projects I want to do, how I start and something happens so I have to stop.  She says she reads about obstacles that I come across, "missions" I have to go through sometimes.  That she knows other people have "real challenges like healthwise" they face so they have a reason to keep going because if not they won't be "ok", but if I don't keep going I'll be fine.

Goals for NE-Things

I created a vision board this year.  A vision board is basically a collage of images that represents the kind of life you want.  The collage is used as a tool to help you clarify the goals you feel you need to achieve this life.  The main thing on my vision board, the thing that I feel I would achieve if I work on the other smaller ones, is Inner Harmony.  There are a couple of material things on my board, like a car (tell me what professional pedestrian doesn't want one), but there are things I want to do like make exercise a habit, make Family Outings a monthly thing, send care package, among other things.

Here We Go Again...AGAIN

Ok.  This is it.  One more go at this.  I did try, but there are so many things that get in the way.  I think mostly it was time.  Like I just had a hard time fitting it in.  I am not the busiest person in the world, mind you.  I just always found others things to do.  Be it for the house or for my family.  I'm not complaining, I just...I wished I had more for ME. 

NE Things

NE Thing for NE One.  That's how it started.  Something for everyone.  This was years ago. Sadly, due to different reasons, it never took off.  I loved the name though and it stuck with me always.

I didn't have the funds to launch what I wanted.  What was it?  Just things that I created: clothes, accessories, etc.  My own designs that I would sew or crochet.  I had no intention of starting big, or even starting "medium".  Its just that things were very tight and work took up a lot of my time.  I was never under the impression that I would do NE Things full time.  I'm still not.  Obviously, like many other designers feel, if it was possible I'd do it full time in a heartbeat, but I've always been realistic.  I was happy with it being a just part time thing.