Where is your attention flowing today?
Are you consciously choosing to focus your attention on something you actual want to focus on, or are you allowing something else you don't really care for or prioritise, to demand and keep hold of all your attention?
Are you just 'going with the flow'? or are you doing something deliberately for an intended purpose?
We can all easily get distracted by things that eat up our precious time. And once that time is gone, there's no getting it back. So why not try to structure and schedule your time for specific tasks more efficiently? This is something I am currently working on right now which I hope will make myself more effective in time-management skills and basic organisation. (If you have any tips, please pass them on! :)
As artist's especially (and many others of course) we can forget and fail to acknowledge the importance of these basic skills which help improve our learning, focus and productivity in all areas. Time-management actually helps us 'create time' that is already available to us if we claim it for a specific purpose.
After all, Isn't time the most valuable thing we have as human beings?
"Yes, of course. Who has time? Who has time? But then if we never take time, how can we have time?" - The Merovingian, The Matrix Reloaded
Let's make the most of our time, by taking, creating and making more of it for the things we truly want to do as often and as frequently as we can.
*The sketch I created for a small personal challenge of sketching 100 Human heads for practice.
I like your outlook. I think this is a daily challenge, especially with sites like steemit vying for attention from creative people. Thanks for posting.
@surfyogi Thank you for your comment. I think this is a huge challenge for all of us with social media and almost always being shown as 'available' (think facebook messenger) for the attention of others, along with technology and lack of discipline, and the presence of laziness. I think we need to create periods of time for ourselves for specific tasks, and even for 'rewards', 'rest', and smart phone/ipad/internet time after we have taken on goals we and tasks we wish to complete during the days/weeks.
Thanks again!
I was wondering after reading this post...what was it's purpose?
Is this just a promotion for your art?
Was this a conversation starter for better time management?
I am confused @robbieallenart . What was the intention behind this post?
Besides all the confusion...HERE! Take my upvote :)
@ibraheem Thank you for your comment and upvote! Well firstly this wasn't a planned post, I just felt like writing after drawing. The intention at the time was to simply discuss a topic which was on my mind, which was 'time, 'time-management' 'focus', 'attention' and 'productivity' which came about during and after creating this sketch.
Along with art, I am interested in a number of topics such as psychology, philosophy, which I would like to combine with my sketches and create a conversation with the viewer and hopefully inspire positive action and creation!
I do want to start conversations with topics on my mind, and combine it with my art (as I am an Artist) and have this skill to add to the topic and conversation that I initiate. I am at the beginning stages of this, so I'm sure there is plenty of room for improvement. And any critique is welcome! I think I can probably improve upon this in the future by adding more than one sketch or drawing to each post, including more obvious and relevant sketches with the written content. In this case, the girl I have sketches is 'thinking', or 'wondering'. Without my commentary, I guess the viewer would question, "what is she thinking, or wondering?". But then again, I have read so far that it is a good idea to post short, to-the-point and easily digestible posts.
@robbieallenart I am very interested to see you perfect the art of blending your art with topics that you want to discuss. Your journey will be a very interesting one to witness. Best wishes!
Lovely - really captured some thoughtful expressions.
@artwatch Thank you! :) I'm working on improving this area in art, I love character art/design and how other artist's can bring their own characters to life with expressions!