The above photo clearly illustrates the mess I get myself into when I jot down ideas, & scribble notes, on bits of paper, & then let them accumulate over time. Sigh. What a mess!

Somewhere, in this pile of paper, is the foundation of my creative road trip – the life I now want to live. I’m choosing to base it on being my own boss, & building financial independence, so I can live my own kind of creative life 24/7. The pieces of its structure are spread out, like a box of jigsaw puzzle bits on a table, among the bits & pieces of paper in that pile!

All I want is a one page summary to act as a compass, one document I can check my progress against, to make sure I am still heading where I want to go! Knowing exactly where I want to ‘get to’ is essential, so I can concentrate my efforts in that direction, building up the daily small steps that will accumulate into my actually ‘getting there’. There is so much I’d like to make, but I can’t do everything I want to, so I have to sort / choose the priorities NOW, so I can focus on what’s most important at this point.

The truth is, I have repeatedly put this off because it’s going to take so much time to sort through it,  & get things figured out. Even then, I know it will change as I go along. But I do need a written, & visual, ‘big picture’ to regularly reference, to help me navigate where I want to go. Otherwise, I know I’ll drift off ‘elsewhere’, & not make much real progress!

Living my own version of a good life is what’s at stake. At least building it from scratch means I can invent my own rules – & create something that works well for me. It looks, to me, like I have my own answers – but they are all scattered out among all those bits of paper!

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Vicky xxx