Wow, I had not that about that aspect of lucky…perhaps the opportunities are there but it depends if we take the opportunity when we notice it. Interesting! But then it feels like there is no luck by it’s definition of some random act…we really earn everything along the way?! Oooo… okay, so this must sound really lame, but discussions like this remind me of the college days where I would stay up all night having these discussions with friends…those were the days!

i have some ponderings on luck i’ll have to dig out some other time when i’m not so sleepy! basically i feel we can create our own luck by being big-hearted and wide-eyed enough to latch on to the moments that lead us to the places and things that shape us. some might say “that thing that happened to you was pure luck…” but somewhere along the way i feel like we must have worked for it in some way or sought out that “lucky” moment? i don’t know… hmmm… just some sleepy thoughts

I’m happy you like my little peak of artwork, too. I will have to give myself some time to feel they are finished and present them as a series. There’s actually 10 squares of paintings and I actually started thinking they would be nice background papers. Also, I thought they could be scanned in and made into a collage of inchies, which was a cool thought. My ADD-ness really takes me everywhere – ideas making my mind bounce from one thing to the next.

Great tip on moving from a simple project to a more in-depth one, so we can vary the range and intensity of what we have to concentrate on. I suppose we do that naturally, like when we need a break and go do something that is easier or more repetitive in nature. I think that’s why I like to have lots of projects going on, I can go to whatever feels right for the moment, so I’m not forcing myself to do anything I’m not ready to do…

Looking forward to the new episode! Thanks again for you thoughts, I really appreciate it!

#2 — Ali’s comment in my interview of her was a breakthrough moment for me, too. It had never occurred to me that it was okay to just not finish something. I mean, I don’t finish things all the time, but I never felt okay about it before. That is really important for me because I have A.D.D. and I can jump from one interest/inspiration to the next within minutes.

#3 — Walking away from a project works for me in everything I do, from dancing to writing, to scrapbooking. In the next episode of Paperclipping (due to come out in 1.5 weeks) I mention how lately I have a complicated artsy project going on at the same time as a simple one because while working on a project I need to have lots of back-away moments. This is the reason I rarely finish a layout in thirty minutes. Lately I’ve realized I can back away by switching from my complicated project to my simple one. Then when I need to sit back from the simple one for a minute to let it process, I am ready to look back at the complicated one.

I think that the answer to this means a lot—if I’m just afraid, then that means I’m just procrastinating and chances are that the project would really be good for me. Like you say though, I often find myself jumping into projects quickly, and sometimes I do have to step back and let the ideas gather. Also, recently, I had to abandon an idea for a bigger project because I realized that I just wasn’t excited about it anymore. I felt much happier when I shifted to a new idea for the project!