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If you really want to speed things up, you have to slow down first

I have a terrible habit of trying to do a million projects at once. My home shows the signs. My projects overflow the desk, cover the floor, almost crawl to my bed.. I have to vacate to kitchen to draw. I’ve started dreaming of a working space outside home.

After we did creative things with wallpaper I started to use the leftovers to cover some old shoeboxes, which led to creation of ‘magic boxes’. One thing leads to one another. This is how I work. This is how I work best.

I’ve been tackling a design for a corporate blog site for weeks now and am losing hope. I’ve done the banner five times. The structure ten times. The colourscheme gazillion times. After all this it’s started to look too much like one old project of mine. Inspiration at this point: zero. I guess it was some way to vent my frustration to do a redesign for this site, all in about an hour. Ahh, better.

I need to learn about doing one thing at a time, to actually finish more things. I need to take more time out to just lay about. No matter how fun it is to do stuff. I know that in a way I am running away from things.

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This entry was posted on Monday, July 25th, 2005 at 3:40 pm and is filed under life.