Wednesday: Needing to Be Doing Something

It is almost spring here - the temperatures are getting higher and the snow drifts are melting slowly. I know that there will be a return of the ick at some point, but spring is coming.

I was speaking to a coworker yesterday about how much I enjoy winter but really like spring and autumn. I am not a fan of summer - especially where I live now. The humidity makes it difficult for me to breathe, walk, and exist without pain, but winter offers some respite to it all. If I have to rank my seasons in order of preference it goes autumn, winter, spring, and summer.

With the return of spring-like temperatures, I am starting to get some itches to create routines and systems and get things going. This happens every year. The shift from winter and hibernation urges heads me into energy and planning urges. I completely understand the concept of a Spring Cleaning - I just don't like cleaning.

Anyway...

I remembered a song that one of my clients helped me write as a closing therapeutic music experience (TME). It popped into my mind yesterday morning, and I have made it the closing experience for all of my groups so far this week. It is time to go back into my TME compendium and see what things I have forgotten. There are times when remembering is more important than creating something new.

I have amassed a large collection of ideas over my professional career to this point. Many of these ideas are my own, but every intern that worked with me contributed to my collection. I have enough TMEs in my compendium to last for years and years and not repeat one!

It has been a long time since I went through the ideas that I have collected. Each time I do, I remember TMEs that I have done and the clients that either inspired them or who loved them. It is time to get back into that collection again.

Spring weather always leads me into thinking about where I will spend my energy. Right now, my work energy is focused on clearing up my office space, but I run out of physical energy pretty quickly, so I need some other tasks that require less movement. Going over my past TMEs will be something to do when my body gives out. Going over those past ideas also help me come up with new ideas - things to fit my current clients rather than the former clients that loved those specific TMEs. 

Reminiscence along with creativity - two of my favorite things.

I am going to take my spring-like itch out into the world today. I am going to go to work. I might get breakfast before I leave town. Who knows? The one thing that I do know is that I have lots of ways to use the energy that is returning to me - creating, remembering, adapting, and growing TMEs.

Happy Wednesday.

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