One goal leads to another goal...

Are you seeing a cycle yet? Are you seeing how analyzing where you are at now can be used as a tool to get you to that place you desire to be? Well, I most certainly am! And I also begin to see a trend emerging........ that reaching and striving for one goal can often lead to identifying and achieving yet another goal in the creative process.

I like to talk about my goals. Just as my conversations with my fiance, Don gives voice to my goals, achieving one goal after another, makes me realize that this truly is a journey. A journey through and journey towards the larger picture, each step leading me onward to that place. I also realized that "that place" changes, it grows, it evolves, it comes to be from an idea, into research, into something else yet to do, before it finally comes to simply be. But why are they important? Because the assist me to get from one point to another, to reach from the here into the there.

Some of the things I've learned along the journey is to set and establish realistic, obtainable goals. First and foremost, that is important! Why? Without them I'd simply be going in circles without a clear, cut destination in mind! Once I reach the decision that I need to do something, like write an artist statement, for instance, I have a realistic, obtainable goal in mind. A goal which I can assess, just as I assessed myself as an artist, a goal that I can break down into small tasks so that I can measure the progress that I am making and that also reassures me that I am on the right path. I've also learned that as I one goal, I am adding another goal and yet continuing with the previous goal, taking each one step by sweet step through the process of being and becoming.

So, what has worked for me? Is establishing a clear cut goal. Breaking down into little more managable goals, in steps that I can reach. Check lists. Checklists? Yep. Checklists! Why? Because they assist me in knowing what helped, what worked, what didn't, and I can use them to check the progress that I am making. And Yes! I'm making progress. Progress that tells me what I yet need to do and what I need to be focusing on for my future.