Different Thinking

I had given myself 7 challenges each day this week:

1. reach out to a friend

2. do something creative

3. swim

4. read

5. write

6. eat/drink something delicious

7. a house/garden/organizational project

And of course by yesterday (day 2) I was already complaining that I "didn't have time" and was going to skip the creative project. 

But I didn't want to give up so easily, so forced myself to sit down and look at an easy thing I could knock out. I chose creating some new bulletin board pins by hot gluing buttons onto thumbtacks.

And dammit if, the minute I started sifting through buttons to pick ones, if I did not open up a whole new way of thinking. I was considering color, pattern, how things went together. It was like opening a different kind of consciousness.

And just that few minutes of creation made me approach things differently — and more effectively — for the rest of the day.

I'm looking at that list for today and I have not achieved much of it (yet). But I shouldn't be ignoring what that kind of thinking does, and I should be pushing myself harder, because it achieves so much more.