Sometimes I do it.

Ok, so one of my last posts here was all about how I was feeling a bit edgy recently - probably down to some kind of information overload. I also prescribed some bloody unrelenting vengeance to shake myself out of it (the kind you get in movies dudes - not in real life!)

I did then spend a few nights away from code and Photoshop and watched some movies instead, and in fact not many were filled with the kind of bloody unrelenting vengeance I like. Still it seemed to do the trick, as on sunday morning I woke up, fired up the PC, opened my IDE and Photoshop and started blasting away in a furious burst and by the end had made huge leaps forward in the current project I’m working on.

To surprise myself further I then went and played guitar for about 2 hours, and seemed to be able to focus in on my technique and really play well, even spending time to work over complicated parts to get them just right. I’m now 4 bars of music away from completing one of the key goals for this month. Safe, it’ll feel good to tick that one off )

After that I started reading a book I had been meaning to get around to (Web Standards Creativity), and then later I even picked up a non-fiction book I had bought a few weeks earlier and started reading it while sitting in the sunshine. Bliss.

I’ve got a few more things I want to note about this whole thing really, mostly to do with the project i’m working on, but I’ll pass on that for now and just leave you with the fact that a little time off can really do some wonders! Don’t wait around pushing yourself to do stuff just because it’s on your list and you want to keep moving forward with things, take a freaking break and come back to it firing on all cylinders!

And as for the title of this post, well the above should speak for itself. The ‘it’ is what you want to do. Now you go do it too.