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"Billy is Anything But Boring" - oil on wood panel, 16 x 20 x .75. Ready to hang. (click on the image to purchase)
"Mortimer is Not Mundane" - oil on wood panel, 16 x 20 x .75 Ready to hang. (click on the image to purchase
The older I get, the more I realize that success at most things isn't about finding the one trick or secret nobody knows about.
It's consistently doing the boring, mundane things everyone knows about but is too unfocused/undisciplined to do.
Get good at boring. - MARK MANSON
"Mortimer is Not Mundane" - oil on wood panel, 16 x 20 x .75 Ready to hang. (click on the image to purchase
The older I get, the more I realize that success at most things isn't about finding the one trick or secret nobody knows about.
It's consistently doing the boring, mundane things everyone knows about but is too unfocused/undisciplined to do.
Get good at boring. - MARK MANSON
Billy Is Anything But Boring
Mortimer Is Not Mundane
I would so love to be a dastardly super-villain femme fatale with mischievous eyes and a wicked, echoing laugh.
Imagine the super-human superpowers (and wardrobe) such a super-villain would have!
But we each have our own unique superpowers, right? My superpower is super dull - I have the ability to do something repeatedly, observe it, refine it, do it again, add more boring tasks to it, repeat them, keep a list in my head of the mound of the mundane, oversee it all and then do it again into infinity. I remember taking a career aptitude test in high school. No surprise - the results showed I'd be great working on an assembly line. Yawn. It doesn't inspire a fabulous mask and costume, just a reliable metal lunchbox full of executive function.
Imagine the super-human superpowers (and wardrobe) such a super-villain would have!
But we each have our own unique superpowers, right? My superpower is super dull - I have the ability to do something repeatedly, observe it, refine it, do it again, add more boring tasks to it, repeat them, keep a list in my head of the mound of the mundane, oversee it all and then do it again into infinity. I remember taking a career aptitude test in high school. No surprise - the results showed I'd be great working on an assembly line. Yawn. It doesn't inspire a fabulous mask and costume, just a reliable metal lunchbox full of executive function.
I am actually grateful - this ability is pretty good for keeping life from going off the rails. But a day of leaping tall buildings, invisibility, flying or even just figuring out who done it in the crime novel we're reading would be nice.
Just saying.
Just saying.
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I love the paintings. Those are some great superheros!
Carl
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I am in awe at your gift of putting together something meaningful in writing every week like clock work and sending it out. I struggle to do this with my blog and I am a damn writing coach! hahaha. You are amazing.
Its ironic that you would say your "superpower is superdull!"
Because you also said today, " I have the ability to do something repeatedly, observe it, refine it, do it again [...]"
To me you have just described the WRITING PROCESS of a successful, prolific writer to a T.
You are a super writer AND a super artist.
Writing feels very conveyor-belty at times. It usually doesn't feel like flirting with matadors or eating marzipan in Paris, as many non-writers thinkg it might feel.
I'd say it's 80 percent conveyor belt, 20 percent matadors and marzipan.
Anyway, you rock.
xo Thea
And thanks for making me feel writerly. I'm tickled pink! xoxo
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Just saying.
Wonder Mike says thanks for entering the March Reader Giveaway! Winner announced at the end of the month.
Wonder Mike says thanks for entering the March Reader Giveaway! Winner announced at the end of the month.