Good Problem to Have

My idea bank — the place in my brain I set aside for future art projects that have the potential to be really cool — has become the cereal aisle.

Too.

Many.

CHOICES.

Good problem to have. It’s always better to have an excess of good ideas as opposed to having none! Of course, this doesn’t bode well for my already oversaturated brain that has a hard enough time dealing with all the noise combatting it daily. In order to not let any bright ideas slip by, I write everything down. I make loose compositional sketches. I prioritize possible pictures then put them through the strainer of my current body of work, considering what direction things may go if pursued.

This process for handling choice overload is okay. It’s not great, but it’s something.

And then, of course, because I have the attention span of puppy, in a few minutes I may just go off the rails chasing another tangent that I just thought of now.

How much of this is just me wanting to produce a lot of cool shit and how much of this is living in the 21st century Tik-Tok technocracy? I prefer a quieter mind. And though I do make a daily effort to sit in stillness for at least ten minutes, it’s hard not to get sucked right back into the vortex of too many things immediately upon finishing.

So for now, the sketchbook and composition ideas will just keep piling up. This will make my decision on what to decide to work on next that much harder. But, again, that ain’t the worst problem to have.

Do you deal with choice overload on the daily? Tell me in the comments and let me know how you deal with it!