In the creative business, we are making something out of nothing and then it becomes something.
So a few things are our biggest assets, one being TIME and the next being… whatever we created.
Like computer code there is a simple methodology, for me anyway, for breaking down things and that will be needed here, so…
My brain is going in so many directions trying to break this down. This has been a time for reflection; I didn’t get on the same hamster wheel as a lot of people, but like everyone else, I’m on one nevertheless. I just didn’t stay on the SAME wheel of having a full time job, where a check comes regularly.
In a way my mind looks at life as a big piece of pie, running calculations along with decision making.
For me, I firmly decided that Time is my most valuable asset. I would think this applies to most people here on earth.
Therefore, If Time is the most important thing I have, then that is what I would like to take control over, as best I can, in my own life.
Period. I weirdly apply calculations to life, because I learned how to do it in high school. In fact my code was the only one in the class which ran properly at the end of the semester.
So my (right) brain gets involved in this way, and I intertwine all other knowledge to date, and use calculations with life decisions …
C+ code follows an IF this is TRUE then you run this script… in a nutshell, IF that is TRUE then you run this script…. if FALSE you run this way….
So as a computer literate creative person when I run scripts (in my head) I throw in lots of variables, and anything that eats up a lot of my TIME (traffic) while also causing STRESS (poor health), cost me extra money to boot (GAS), wear and tear on a car every day ($$$), whatever nonsense at work if you didn’t find that nugget job; anything that keeps me at work longer than needed (STRESS!) because I do have a home life and a dog and friends and and…. so let’s see, I could be doing all of that before work or having QUALITY TIME with my dogs, in a creative inspiring environment.
THEN all of that being the case, what is the path to eliminating all of those stressors?
Well, sometimes it is a hard one, most of the great views are hardest to get to, any hiker can tell you that. It is not an easy path, at all, to work for yourself. Though it appears that way to the world around. In fact, working from home invites many boundary challenges, in that people think you aren’t working.
Those people, the clueless ones, the ones who then steal your time because they do not value it, they get thrown into MY system.
Below is a sample of code, which runs an interactive script:
I went around thinking something was wrong with me, complaining about traffic or whatever, because others didn’t agree, or maybe just accepted it.
Me, well I’m really just a person not liking systems that were in place before I got here to decide if I wanted to be part of it or not. Thinking about things that need fixed and then setting up systems to fix them, it’s something in my brain that is just wired.
Not only is TIME the biggest asset in life, even by the hour, our time is valuable, I charge for work by the hour. If others who don’t value that come along and, ahem … steal it from us, in so many ways, that becomes an issue in my side more than anything.
Calling with things like “I want to pick your brain.”
OUCH!!
Perhaps that is why I have gone kicking and screaming at technology while using it, that double edge sword. It is a MAJOR time stealer!! The biggest ever, speeding up, fast, we’re frogs in boiling water….
I see where certain “forces” and powers that be, are in control of many things, electronically with the changing technology, but in the many many ways our TIME is being stolen.
Put this app on your phone, update it, put some more, update them, keep looking at that phone, it’s all been a part of a larger plan to keep us busy. Believe it, don’t believe it, no matter to me, truth is what it is and over the years some folks have come back around and said those words “you were right”. I just observe things that others don’t, throw the variables into my calculations, patterns that are obvious to me and it’s not that hard to predict some things.
Our time as creatives, is something to protect, and others’ access to it, huge.
