Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Pay Attention and Give a Shit

I'm creative. I should create at least as much as I consume.

It doesn't matter if someone gave me the responsibility or not, I should take it. If I could have made it better and it remains unchanged, I'm responsible for mediocrity.

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Some people have the ability to put into words things I would never be eloquent enough to describe, even if I've felt it for a long time. Minus does that very often, and she makes it look effortless. That's one of the reasons I love her blog. She can talk about anything with so many details that makes it sound fascinating and familiar at the same time. I suck at that. If I didn't, I would actually "write" here as often as I'd like to. It consumes the hell out of me to translate into a post the ideas in my head. And it never quite comes out the way I hoped for.

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I was reading Minus' blog today (which, by the way, has a sweet new design – way to go, Minus!) and I ended up at this post here by Randy Hunt, a designer and writer for Speak Up. It made me feel embarrassed for being such a queen of putting things off , for tapping myself on the back and thinking I'm doing so much when really I'm not doing that much at all. Or maybe not as well as I could. "I need to be effective, not efficient."

Sometimes a metaphorical ass-kick can do wonders for me.