If there is one thing I am terrible at and need to work on improving it is letting things go and leaving things be, until the time arrives when something can actually be done about said thing. Today was a good example.

After dinner this evening the missus and the little one left the house for a little while. The missus was going to the gym (I’d elected not to) and the little one was going to the trampoline park. So as soon as the house was empty I put on some music, fired up Blender and got to work on this new artwork I’ve been tinkering with for the last few days. Awesome! I don’t often get to have the house to myself (which is fine), but on the rare occasion that I do, I try to make the most of it.

So, while I was working away, making some decent progress, I happened to notice part of my brain was occupied with something entirely unrelated. I kept going over this thing that had happened at work earlier in the day. I got a little annoyed and told myself to stop. There was nothing to be done about this right now, so just leave it for tomorrow. And I did. For a few minutes and then the whole thing would start back up again.

Once again I told myself to shut up.

And again.

And again. And again. And…

You get the point.

During the entire one hour and thirty minutes I spent working in Blender I could not for the life of me just leave this thing be. In the end I feel like I made some decent progress on my new artwork. But I can’t help but that it would haven been a whole lot better if my mind had managed to keep quiet and focus.

I guess the positive thing was that I actually noticed what was going on this time and tried putting and end to it. I often don’t. It’s a work-in-progress.

/end rant