#creativeavoidance

[studiosonkind]

“I fear not a man who has a 1000 kicks, I fear a man who has one kick that he’s practiced a 1000 times“ - Bruce Lee.

Classic procrastination. Creative avoidance & Priority Dilution - This is what I do best unless I am way too amped up or invested in the process or results of the current task at hand.  

Do you ever find yourself doing any of these?

Wait..

Let me explain.

Oftentimes we fall into the trap of overpromising and underdelivering, and it’s always better for the reverse to take place. Isn’t it?

Creative avoidance is my favourite brand of procrastination. Because we can always find a 100 more appealing things to do at all times rather than do the most important task. The risk of rejection and failure sits there looming above our shoulder, and keeping the dream going gets difficult by default.

Priority Dilution is another brand of procrastination that walks with me like a shadow. There’s this notion that it’s sexy and max appealing if you are good at 10 different things, and all of that is part of your elevator pitch.

What I’ve recently come to realise is that priority dilution results in diluted focus, and therefore diluted results.

Why?! Because great results are not achieved through balance. Great results are achieved through short seasons of intensive imbalance. That’s the reason farmers abide by the harvest principle. They work 18hours a day during the harvest thereby putting all their other activities in imbalance.

So by the law of Harvest Principle, it seems only viable that we expend the minimum amount of energy maintaining everything else and dedicate 💯of the excess energy in one direction to create an explosion - to create the power, focus and breakthrough.   

Seasons are a much more accurate reflection of our lives and how you create lasting results. 

As appealing as it is to be a multi-hyphenate, all the great peak performers seem to have made it big with one thing. They dominated one thing and post blowing through the wall they diversified into different assets and grew by doing other things.

Let’s raise a toast to conquering one feat at a time. Shall we?!

Qui?!

[katiehoffmanart]

Nothing makes me as motivated to paint as knowing that I really ought to be working on my taxes. #worksinprogress #catpainting #denverartist #taxseason #denverart #creativeavoidance #shirking #oilpaintissosexual #taxesarenofun #contemporaryart #whimsicalart #motivation #unfinishedbusiness #artstagram #instaartist #art #paintanyway