This is probably a good time to take stock (again) of some of the things I'm learning:
1) Impatience accomplishes exactly nothing. Agitation will not make lines get shorter or paint dry faster so you can fix that thing you want to fix. Swearing at paint doesn't fix anything either. If you put your hand in paint, that's not paint's fault.
2) No one is timing you. Keep making choices that make you stronger in the long term, not ones that make you less annoyed or less busy in the short term.
3) Stretching yourself makes you vulnerable, uncomfortable, and incompetent in ways that don't feel very good. Nothing could be better. If you don't stretch, you don't grow. What kind of person thinks it's more important to be comfortable and safe than to be growing?
4) Perfection is impossible - and for that matter, subjective. Do everything you can do, and then pay yourself some basic respect by moving on to the next thing. You can make time to create new things, or you can make time to mourn and question old things. The clock won't give you both at once.
5) You don't need to take guilty "me" time. You deserve to invest in yourself. Make yourself better. Push yourself. Astound yourself.
I think that's all for now, and I'm sorry it's not peppered with jokes. I'm tired. :)
