I have always been interested in many things from astronomy
to starting a business, from crafts to economics, from politics to traveling.
Everyday is a new opportunity to find something that distracts me. I don’t have
ADD or any other mental deficiency (that I know of); I just enjoy learning new
things. Lots of new things. Many different kinds of new things.
Oh, I have my core interests that I devote the majority of
my time to such as starting two businesses, crafts and writing. But I’m also
working on many other things like gardening, homesteading and participating in
local politics. I also love to read and sing karaoke. Plus my mind won’t stop
coming up with new ideas for each of these interests.
My day usually consists of setting a well laid plan and
getting off track. I’m pretty sure I’m still being productive in some way but
many people on the outside looking in probably wouldn’t see it. Hell, I don’t
see it half the time. But on a good day I go for a walk or a swim in the
morning, have breakfast with my husband, work on my website design business,
have lunch, work on my craft business and then its dinner, watching TV, reading
and going to bed. I manage another blog for a third business I’m working on
(sanensatisfied.blogspot.com) and all the daily tasks associated with these
businesses like taking calls from a small number of website customers and some
tasks on Etsy and running errands keep me pretty busy.
It’s quite exhausting living in my head.
I’ve been thinking about starting this blog for a while to
kind of act as an outlet for dealing with my crazy lifestyle but now that I’m
writing this first post I’m thinking that maybe there are many more people in
the same boat I’m in. People who like many things, who like variety in their
lives but who really want to be successful and make a living despite the fact
that they don’t want to (or can’t) focus on only one thing. And I guess, if I’m
being honest with myself, it’s also a manifesto of sorts to the people who don’t
understand this way of life.
Everyday I fight with myself about going back to a “jobby-job-job”.
I become exhausted and hopeless and imagine myself in a “simple” life like
waitressing. All I would have to do is go to work, wait on some tables and come
home. Sometimes that seems a hell of a lot better than doing all those things I
do every day.
For some reason, that I have yet to discover, I can’t go
back to a “jobby-job-job”. I just can’t bring myself to do it. I keep pushing
on and figuring stuff out and learning new things. Things that make me mounds
happier than waiting tables would. I’m not trying to demean waitressing. I used
to waitress and I know that it can be stressful. It’s just not for me.
This blog is a journal about my winding path to where I am
today. I will share tips, tools, advice and musings about living a
multi-faceted or Renaissance lifestyle. Many people think that there is no room
for people like that in today’s society. Everything is so specialized. I don’t
agree. I believe that Renaissance Souls (as Margaret Lobenstine calls us) have
just as much place in society as industry masters do.
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