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I got this one instead. Whee!

I feel both more and less on my game today. Went to yoga last night. Rode my bike to work this morning for the first time in months. IN my effort to remember all the things I need for biking to work, I actually forgot a bunch of things:my cell phone, my calendar/Book of Life, and the folder of work I took home with me for Work from Home Friday.

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Really disappointing day at work. Maxed out by the codependence and lack of vision there. Revived by my amazing baby boy and his efforts at walking - holy moly! Also revived by gouda, brie, crackers and chardonnay.

Where will you be in ten years?

Adam and I listened to a presentation on line by Malcolm Gladwell. He was speaking at a design conference and generally it was an overview of his latest book. The gist was that it takes 10,000 hours of effort to create genius - which is approximately 4 hours every day for 10 years. I am going to listen to this talk again, it is so inspiring. My arts group has had this ongoing discussion about genius for a while now. There is this misconception that genius just IS, but no, that's not really true. Genius takes cultivation.

So where might I be in 10 years? Where might you be in 10 years? How do I put 4 solid, focused hours a day into anything while mothering a small child? Perhaps my genius will burst forth in 20 years. Rarely does anything brilliant just HAPPEN. It takes practice, revision, effort, and lots of time for mistakes and attempts that never see the light of day. It's all very, very unsexy. We seem to want to be *discovered* or prodigies. But genius is cultivated, daily.

I feel really inspired now. Listen for yourself.

Stop me before I post again!

More link spam, but I LOVED this article on Twilight in the most recent issue of Bitch.