I took some time today to clean out some files from my desk draws and try to create a little more space in my home office. At times it’s hard to imagine how much you have let “pile up” that really is no longer needed or even needed from the beginning, but you had decided to hang on to it for some reason.
I found some papers from 1999!!!! Yes you read that right – 19 -- 99! There were some notes on products and services that I had considered trying to get into operation. Now the ideas alone don’t make any sense. I guess it’s because I’d like to think that in the past 18 years my concerns about what I would be doing to create income have drastically changed over that period of time.
It seems at that period I was considering more concentration in the area of mail order and producing some “captured on disc” products that I could offer to the public. Now with all the advancements in the digital age they seem a little antiquated as to their ability to sustain a lengthy time period of producing income.
There was one item I found that I thought was an early beginning to my current writing career in hopes of producing income. I had prepared a 20 page booklet entitled “What Must Baby Think?” It was a humorous look at some comments that we make as adults and what a baby might conceive in his mind upon hearing these sayings. I had also included some crude illustrations trying to depict these things in picture form. Upon looking over some of the pages I can see why I should stick to writing and NOT illustrating.
On the left hand side of the page I would put the adult “thoughts.” On the right side of the page I would put the baby’s “thought process.” I’m not going to bore you with attempting an illustration of the process within this blog. (Remember I found out: I’m NO illustrator.) But I will try to give you a “taste” of what the booklet was trying to portray.
The left hand side of the page illustrated a “grandmotherly-type” lady adoringly looking down in the direction of the baby and saying: “He looks like he has his father’s eyes.”
On the right hand side of the page was an illustration of the baby sitting on the floor with a puzzled look on his face and “thinking”: “How can Daddy see if I have his eyes?”
This type of “back and forth” went on for several pages. After reviewing the little booklet I decided it was time to put this endeavor in the trash bag and continue with my efforts to get the clean up finished. If I stopped for every piece of “old” attempts I had made I’m going to be at this a very L-O-N-G time.
But, wait! Here are some of my attempts to prepare a wedding disc to record a couple’s special moment in time! Ah! What memories!!!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"Trying and failing is better than never having tried."
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