A Work in Progress - Hands

My own personal race is on to finish this painting before the week is out. I've been taking my sweet time with this up until today when I banished distractions to focus on finishing this painting. Progress was painfully slow, and the thought of it dragging on longer was enough motivation for me to clear the computer screen of everything except the reference image. What a difference that made.

I guess it is true, that the procrastination monkey is a Dopamine junkie. All of the excuses to find the right podcast to play in the background were nothing but procrastination, a search for a hit of Dopamine. I was reaching a point where the white noise of my focus was reaching a crescendo.

I've experienced this before. The only effective solution to quiet my mind and find inner calm and focus is stillness and quiet. Even most music is distracting. In this space of calm and quiet I am my most productive.

So now I am in tune with my productivity again, I will make good progress with this painting and the backlog caused by the white noise of distraction.

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