Sunday, March 30, 2003

A few courageous acts (total time today working on actual bowls: 2 3/4 hours) Did a few courageous things in the forge today. It's handy to have those earlier drafts still around, so I can practice a technique on those first. Actually, it looks as if at least one of those earlier drafts can be rescued as the start of a new bowl sculpture. Maybe all of them can. So I'm glad I didn't make myself unhappy about them earlier. (Well ok, I did make myself unhappy about them at times, but I was able to stop.) This morning I woke thinking about my work. Then I realized that this is now routine. Halleluiah! I wake every morning thinking about work in progress. This is exactly what I've been wanting. This morning, too, I found that it was actually easier and more natural to go straight to the studio, than to stay in the cabin and go to the computer. I'm starting to get the momentum for which I've been longing. The secret, of course, is that it comes not so much from longing, as from action.   8:26:41 PM    comment []

Prioritizer This morning my confusion over exercise came to a peak. What weight lifting routine to use? How on earth can I work in time to walk or do cardio tapes etc.? What are my fitness priorities, really? I used my favorite online prioritizer to settle it. As usual, I found some surprises. Often when I use this prioritizer I find that what I've been thinking of as #1 priority is really somewhere in the middle of the list. I'd been thinking that energy was my top fitness priority right now, but it's really #5 out of ten. Top priority is plain old overall health. Heart health is second because that's really a life or death fitness concern. If I were lying in the hospital after a heart attack, I wouldn't be worried about my posture, would I? This process ended up resolving some issues about diet, too. I recommend the prioritizer without reservation. I usually just click on the simple example and change the list to whatever I want. Before you do the actual prioritizing process, you also have a chance to change the question to anything you want. Just be sure to make each item on your list short. Otherwise you won't see the whole phrase later in the process. 11:44:19 AM    comment []