Only so much creativity to go around

I think I am realizing that as a creative person I have a limited supply. I am often in the mood to create something, but if I am currently already working creatively in one section of my life, chances are I do not have the same interest to be creative in another area simultaneously.

What I am saying is that I can not be in the middle of trying to figure out a unique idea for my dining room currents one day, and then in that same day go into my office and feel the urge to come up with a new baseball design. It seems that I can only be focusing my creative energies one at a time for me really to feel that what I am creating is to the best of my ability. To make something new and unique I have to focus on a creative way to solve the problem. Most of creativity for me is about how to solve a problem in a way that makes me excited about the outcome I've created- if I didn't have to be excited about the outcome, I could solve things quickly, easily, and willy-nilly. Its the result being exciting that takes the energy and the time.

So for me it is not so much that creativity only comes in spurts, but that if I am working on one project somewhere in my life, I have a hard time mustering up creativity at the same time in another area of my life.


Small business advice for me for the day:
In other words, I better lay off trying to figure out what to do for my dining room curtains, b/c I have some baseballs to paint!