Breaking the Pattern

This is not a post, this is a confession.

Yesterday, for the first time (and hopefully the last time), I failed the daily creative post challenge!

After noting that it was getting harder and harder to keep the ongoing generation of new and creative ideas on the blog, a puck finally sailed past the goalie.

And of all the topics, the topics was "patterns."

So I broke my pattern of posting daily with the prompt ... "pattern!"

I'm not sure how it happened.  Well, I know how, but I'm just surprised.  There I was, about 8:00 pm and I still hadn't taken note of the prompt.  I dialed up Blackboard, clicked on our course, and went to Assignments.  "Patterns."

I instantly thought of my wife, who at that very moment was sitting across from me, perusing knitting patterns online.  I thought I might take a shoulder-surf-shot of her, with her blurred head in the foreground and the patterns on the laptop screen in front of her.  "Hmmm, I could make that cool.  Too easy!" I thought.  I decided to finish up what I was doing (writing an International Business thought paper) before fetching the camera.

The next time I thought about patterns, it was 7:00 am over a bowl of oatmeal.  Damn!

For me, the real "pattern" -- both in this class and in life -- is that once I think of something, something cool that I want to do -- just do it!  Don't put it off.  Pull the trigger right away.  Jump on it while you're still excited, while the juice is flowing!  It's sometimes tough, and it might mean you are constantly in motion, always working on the now instead of planning for the soon .... but it seems to be a good way to go about getting stuff done.

And not spooning goopy oatmeal into your mouth during a breakfast of regret.