looking for some motivation

So over my years I have jumped around in the creative world, from music to video, to drawing and sewing. But often i find that I dont stick with my endevours long enough to become really good. Often life gets busy and I forget to practice and then when i come back to things i find im not as good as i was (understandably) and i get even more discouraged.

But the past 2 weeks have seen me get a little more motivated in following through with things. I just got back from a 2 week intensive summer school on highly technical topics and i met a lot of people in not art fields that were surprisingly artistic. Of the 30ish people I met at least 4 of them were piano and singing inclined and another one was writing a theme song for the summer school. A THEME SONG! another person I met had a $1500 camera and took pictures every day, and yet another one was an amazing drawer.

I have always felt that I needed to focus on my education to the exclusion of all my other hobbies and that would cause me to never prevail at anything except education. Often I have worried that this would cause me to burn out and I would end up in a flaming mess of a degree, but if this summer school has taught me anything its that I need those hobbies to keep my sanity (which is pretty cracked right now). So I am going to try and do more creative things.

Now like I said at the beginning, I have jumped around between a tone of creative things and I can never focus on 1 thing anyway so what I plan to do is post 1 creative thing a week. be it a practice song on my guitar/flute or a link to my deviantArt account with a new drawing. I know that I'm not particularly good at anything right now but I am hoping that with this blog I will find the motivation to create more often.

So here goes, I woke up this morning and after doing some exercising and eating breakfast I noticed my flute sitting on the same shelf it has sat since I moved into my apartment. and it made me sad. So i picked it up again and practiced for about 30 minutes or so. Sadly its been probably more than a year since I last played and I have gotten a lot worse than I was last time i played.

So here is my first post. Its a really simple 8 bar practice song (Little Robin Red Breast). unfortunately I dont have any space to post it up yet but I'm working on that. Like I said, i'm hoping to post somethign at least once a day.