Quarantine and Anxiety - Time to Create!!
Hello everyone,
I hope that when you read this post, you are safe and healthy. I know that in some places, the weather has been getting warmer - yet, this does not erase that this virus is still around. Remember to be mindful of what you are touching, wash your hands and don't touch your face. Don't let the sun distract you from the harsh reality that this pandemic is still very much around.
I know that some of you have had more time on your hands than you ever thought you would have. We have been able to keep busy because we still have work and we also have three small children. Yet, in my quiet time - as rare as it happens - it has given me the time to actually think about what I want to keep achieving.
This blog, although no one is following me, has kept me in touch with my writing mind. Each post forces me to keep writing and, hopefully, get better at it. It has inspired me to think about those thoughts that we push away because we don't want to bother with them now. Each post has left me vulnerable in the web - for everyone to see all my imperfections and to be okay with it.
I have been wanting to write more. In fact, I have written a book. Wait wait - it is nowhere near being finished and may never get published. Yet, I sat down and just started writing about my journey to motherhood and how I became a Mom. Hum, I just realized that even before my kids, I was already a Mom - must add that to my book...
We all have our creativity - it is in there but we need to just tap into it and let it out! This is not a time to be negative. I always used to say - I am not creative, I can't be like all those content creators. Yet, I have one published article in an online magazine. I have spoken at several marriage and family events and I have given personal talks. So, I am creative - but I still have to work at it.
The other day, I made a birthday cake for our son's first birthday. I had never made icing or even frosted a cake. I thought it would be horrible - guess what?? it was actually not that bad and it was very much liked by my kids. It was just upsetting that leading up to making that cake, I kept saying that it would not turn out and that it would be horrible... But when I started making it, I went all in. I even cut it in half - yes, who is this?? And you know what? It has inspired me to keep doing their birthday cakes for future years. Slowly, I will purchase more baking supplies and just keep creating their birthday cakes.
All this to say that we all have the potential to create. Now, is the perfect time to start activating that part of our brain. I was watching an ad before I started writing this post. It was about a guy who created a blog and posted some pictures of rock art - now, he has a business where he creates terrazzo and sells it. It stemmed from an idea and it became a business.
I am not saying that if you do the same, it will instantly turn into success - many times, we need to fail before we actually get to where we are meant to be. But if we never try, then we can never fail and we can never obtain success.
Put on your thinking caps - start writing, painting, taking pictures, baking, cooking, dancing, planning - use that part of your brain that has been used more for binge watching. Use your full potential. We have, in some way, been given a gift to just use our talents. We all have talents - even if it's just one, that talent is to be used to its fullest.
My new blog won't be up for a while - I am at the creating and gathering of ideas - but when it will, it will be scary, but it will be mine and even if I fail - at least, I would have tried!
Remember to keep safe and stop the spread of Covid-19.
SM
I hope that when you read this post, you are safe and healthy. I know that in some places, the weather has been getting warmer - yet, this does not erase that this virus is still around. Remember to be mindful of what you are touching, wash your hands and don't touch your face. Don't let the sun distract you from the harsh reality that this pandemic is still very much around.
I know that some of you have had more time on your hands than you ever thought you would have. We have been able to keep busy because we still have work and we also have three small children. Yet, in my quiet time - as rare as it happens - it has given me the time to actually think about what I want to keep achieving.
This blog, although no one is following me, has kept me in touch with my writing mind. Each post forces me to keep writing and, hopefully, get better at it. It has inspired me to think about those thoughts that we push away because we don't want to bother with them now. Each post has left me vulnerable in the web - for everyone to see all my imperfections and to be okay with it.
I have been wanting to write more. In fact, I have written a book. Wait wait - it is nowhere near being finished and may never get published. Yet, I sat down and just started writing about my journey to motherhood and how I became a Mom. Hum, I just realized that even before my kids, I was already a Mom - must add that to my book...
We all have our creativity - it is in there but we need to just tap into it and let it out! This is not a time to be negative. I always used to say - I am not creative, I can't be like all those content creators. Yet, I have one published article in an online magazine. I have spoken at several marriage and family events and I have given personal talks. So, I am creative - but I still have to work at it.
The other day, I made a birthday cake for our son's first birthday. I had never made icing or even frosted a cake. I thought it would be horrible - guess what?? it was actually not that bad and it was very much liked by my kids. It was just upsetting that leading up to making that cake, I kept saying that it would not turn out and that it would be horrible... But when I started making it, I went all in. I even cut it in half - yes, who is this?? And you know what? It has inspired me to keep doing their birthday cakes for future years. Slowly, I will purchase more baking supplies and just keep creating their birthday cakes.
All this to say that we all have the potential to create. Now, is the perfect time to start activating that part of our brain. I was watching an ad before I started writing this post. It was about a guy who created a blog and posted some pictures of rock art - now, he has a business where he creates terrazzo and sells it. It stemmed from an idea and it became a business.
I am not saying that if you do the same, it will instantly turn into success - many times, we need to fail before we actually get to where we are meant to be. But if we never try, then we can never fail and we can never obtain success.
Put on your thinking caps - start writing, painting, taking pictures, baking, cooking, dancing, planning - use that part of your brain that has been used more for binge watching. Use your full potential. We have, in some way, been given a gift to just use our talents. We all have talents - even if it's just one, that talent is to be used to its fullest.
My new blog won't be up for a while - I am at the creating and gathering of ideas - but when it will, it will be scary, but it will be mine and even if I fail - at least, I would have tried!
Remember to keep safe and stop the spread of Covid-19.
SM
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