My recreation of a fantastic quote from my "Gratitude" iPhone app
I have an iPhone app called “Gratitude,” (the website is http://happytapper.com/ if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch) that displays quotes after you type in everything you’re grateful for that day, and this was one of the quotes that came up.
It spoke to me so strongly that I (ironically) spent several hours of a work day recreating the photo so I could keep it as a reminder. Hours later, I realized my iPhone has a “capture screen” function that would have done the same thing for me in about two seconds, but hey – now I know that I can recreate damn near anything from scratch when I put my mind to it.
I think we must spend half our lives doing things we don’t like to do. When I’m working on a song that speaks to me, I can have the entire song finished in an hour. In fact, that’s about how long it takes for me to get the bare bones of all my songs together. It’s easy for me because I love doing it, and therefore the creative juices flow, the words come to me, and (perhaps most importantly) I’m focused and driven to finish it.
When I’m at my office and I have to do projects, I find that projects for my friends are finished at roughly twice the speed of projects that drag out and require a million tweaks and revisions. I think the biggest reason for that is because, in all honesty, I don’t like redoing the same thing 1,000 times, and it stops being fun. Once it stops being fun, I start becoming easily distracted, and suddenly an hour-long project has taken all day and still isn’t finished.
I want to live an inspired life, one where I have fun doing things I like to do, and make people happy as a result. I’m incredibly excited that people are starting to read my blog every day; I’ve been holding back because I didn’t want to overwhelm readers with a slew of entries, and now I’ve got requests for more writing and pictures of Cooper. Who now has his own link on the sidebar for when people just want a gallery of his cuteness.
On a totally different note, I have just received my first piece of negative feedback on eBay. Without going into details about how this guy chose to behave like a churlish ass over a misunderstanding, I will say that I have been dreading this moment since 2002 when I first opened an account.
Now that it’s happened and my “score” is down from 100% to 90.9%, I just don’t care! I think that must be a life lesson: Feedback is just a number, you can’t satisfy everyone, and sometimes people are determined to be unhappy, no matter how much you try to please them.
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