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Hello my friend,

Welcome to the 21st installment of The Creative Journey, the experience of one Charles Yerkes, Eadarian Poet, perpetuator, and otherwise mildly creative and excessively modest personage.

The need to budget time; what a YUCKY thing for me to have to deal with.

Now I know there are some among us who thrive on such things. Who live for time regulation, deadlines, goal orientation, and so on… and to a degree all of that is an important part of a healthy life. But as all who’ve been friends of the Eadarian Network for any length of time can at least guess, I’m not such a one. Nope, I’m not a type A driven personality. Now, I would never be considered a type “Z”, if there is such a thing. Meaning one who does nothing with these things. No, I tend to hang with the m,n,o,p’s in life; those in the middle, those who live somewhere between the two extremes of obsession and apathy; at least when it comes to budgeting time and efforts.

Yet the importance of such efforts cannot be denied. There are only 24 hours in each day and a good 16 or more of that is taken up with sleeping, and money earning so that I can continue to eat, stay out of the rain, and fund this creative project. Which leaves just a few hours each day to get everything done. Oh things such as: Marketing, R & D, Writing new broadcasts, stories, and recording these, fiddle playing, photo editing, marketing….. ummmmmmm, marketing, and did I mention Marketing?

For as unfortunate as it is, the best – most creative and downright cool pieces of work can often leave a man starving to death. While work that is mediocre at best, can make a luxurious living for another. The difference is marketing.

But how to accomplish all that needs to be done; for in truth, none of these can be left to fall through the cracks. For this would leave nothing to market – and while you could spend vast sums of money marketing nothing, your returns… may not equate your expenditures.

So I’m learning to budget time. To set time limits: say, 1 hour / day to write, 1 hour / day to read, 1 to market, 1 to… well the list goes on. Now I use the “1 hour” increment for ease of communication of this idea. I’m still defining how much of each day goes to which activity.

And then there is the whole forcing myself to stop at the allotted stopping time, for one activity to pursue another. That is hard – because I always want to finish just 1 more thought, just one more sentence, one more photo edit, just one more… well you get the idea. And before I know it, I have blasted through the time allotted for the next activity.

I know, I know, everyone faces this and successful people accomplish it. And no! I do not want any cheese to go with this whine. But thanks for asking.

Well, speaking of allotted time, I gotta fly.
Thank you for joining me.

Until next time my friend,

Live Nobly, Live Well.

Charles
Eadarian Poet, Perpetuator, Photographer, and Fiddle Player

Oh, PS, Book Signing on May 15 from noon to two pm at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Hendersonville. Click on the Latest News Page for more information.

See ya there.

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