Website redesigns to complete, contacts to make, leads to pursue, emails to draft, images to approve, blog entries to compose, videos to edit, podcasts to create, files to organize and upload, chapters and scenes to write...the list goes on and on...
Sometimes I wonder how much my hobby is still a hobby anymore...
If you would have asked me a year ago whether or not I would feel the way I feel now, I would likely have responded with an overwhelming, "ARE YOU NUTS?!?" But even though I am loathe to admit it, THE WORD tells me that my Lord delights in truthful men, so I must confess: occasionally being a Wandering Man can wear you out! Right now, in addition to prayer and study, home (with my wonderful wife, five children, and Wickus the Wondermutt), my full-time job, I have no less than five major writing projects in the hopper! While this, on the one hand is a very wonderful thing; on the other, it is becoming a little much.
So, I am torn. Sadly none of these projects are to the point where they can financially support my family, so I cannot just quit my job and write full time (though if I had my choices, that is likely what I would do). Then again, each of the projects is very near and dear to my heart and given the right attention, any one of them could bud and foster into something far beyond what I am currently doing for a living (both in the sense of dollars and peace of mind/personal satisfaction returned). So I am left tightrope-walking along trapeze of decision, balancing the umbrella-of-the-life-I've-always-known-in-one-hand and twirling a flaming-baton-of-the-life-I-hope-to-one-day-lead in the other.
Usually, I can handle it, but weeks like this last one can be...trying.
For example, this week, at the Studio, the decision was made to change the entire premise of the show we've been working on. We think that most of the work that's been done in the past can be salvaged, but there's going to be a TREMENDOUS amount of additional new work in addition to a WHOLE LOAD of re-work. If the Studio was my full-time job, that would be great, but trying to generate concept ideas for a new kids' show while holding conference meetings with geospatial engineers from across the country can be a little...jarring.
And, speaking of teleconferences, I'm (actually, not just me, but me, my wife, and the Wandering Men are...) currently in the throws of trying to figure out how to work a teleconference from all across the south to Vancouver, where a potential new client is at this week!
And those are only SOME of the challenges that I'm facing this week. Thankfully, I have my friends, my smiling, loving children, my stunningly intelligent, resourceful and sexy wife to fall back on in times like these. Most of all, I have the source of ALL power and goodness in the universe behind me - thanks, Jesus - YOU ROCK (and ARE the rock), As usual!
On second thought, with a team like this, who can lose?
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