No matter what distractions I encounter, I always come back to the same things.

In my work and career, there've been so many alternatives knocking at my door and I've answered to so many of them. Web based businesses, MLMs, alternative career paths, and alternatives in writing. Because, face it, we need to pay the bills, right? 

The problem is that I never find the success and fulfilment that I'm looking for (I'm obviously looking in the wrong places!). 

Then a couple months ago, I sat down and shortened my list. The list of things on my plate (work wise) to just the things I WANT to be doing. The things I enjoy and will put the time into. Those things that I can consider mastering.

Here's my list: Writing fiction, Painting.

That's it. 

So everything else fighting for space in my life has to take a back seat to these two very fundamental things. And if that means suffering through the bill-paying gigs to get there, so be it. It makes no sense chasing money so that I can have some unpromised future time to work on my passions. I might as well do what I care about now and ditch the rest.

God, family and bill-paying gigs will remain where they are, of course. But the distractions can take a hike.