tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5690887006555810946.post4401790512424037694..comments2024-02-10T12:25:39.534+04:00Comments on An Englishman Abroad: Aiming for everything and hitting nothingIanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05167458171459084910noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5690887006555810946.post-16522704685604948082010-11-18T06:39:30.285+04:002010-11-18T06:39:30.285+04:00And sorry, I beg to differ - "hitting nothing...And sorry, I beg to differ - "hitting nothing," - really! ridiculous!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5690887006555810946.post-28670048406252432292010-11-18T06:38:43.883+04:002010-11-18T06:38:43.883+04:00I just learned that the most items you should put ...I just learned that the most items you should put on your "to-do" list is 5. I guess that's per day. I may have been spacing out when someone told me that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5690887006555810946.post-83826686114241321472010-11-11T18:11:09.573+04:002010-11-11T18:11:09.573+04:00Too many ideas, too little time... Lately, it has ...Too many ideas, too little time... Lately, it has helped me a great deal to incorporate one big theme in everything I do. Writing, painting, playing - all in the same atmosphere. If the words don't come, the images are still there, and visa versa.<br /><br />Also, I carry a voice recorder with me. For the first lines of stories, poems, whatever. Often, these will disappear in the final draft, but the idea is captured, waiting for me to work on it.<br /><br />I have no problem with self-discipline, as I have been working as a freelance translator for many years (working as a painter and writer at night). I set my own deadlines - in almost everything I do.<br /><br />And then I let them go. Because the flow tells me to...flowtopshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13530945235666266906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5690887006555810946.post-79237348416206926412010-11-11T14:57:08.382+04:002010-11-11T14:57:08.382+04:00To know his own weaknesses is a great step toward ...To know his own weaknesses is a great step toward wisdom. Procrastination is a kind of sign that shows we like perfection. And we have to deal with laziness?<br /><br />;);)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10198474232412386854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5690887006555810946.post-65310148174995369782010-11-11T14:33:54.028+04:002010-11-11T14:33:54.028+04:00I find it definitely helps if I remember to keep a...I find it definitely helps if I remember to keep a pen by my bedside. And recently someone gave me a stack of blank postcards,so I take a small batch of them with me lately and have been filling them up...so I can 'catch' the words, I like your analogy with the nets. So now I have a lot of fish. Next what?!! <br />Good luck with your catch:))shayndelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13506811690843992800noreply@blogger.com