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In Due Season

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So I love avocados. I can eat avocados for breakfast, a snack, lunch and even incorporate avocados in my dinner. I love avocados so much that sometimes I get inpatient for them to get ripe. The other day I grabbed an avocado from the kitchen. I knew the avocado was still hard, but I wanted it so bad that I started to cut into it. As I was trying to clean and cut the avocado, I was struggling to peel off the skin because it was not ripe yet. I forced the avocado peel off and lied to myself that I was enjoying the unripe avocado. If I would have waited a couple more days, that avocado would have been ripe, not as difficult to clean and perfect for me to eat. I feel like sometimes in life we want certain things so bad, that we are willing to force it, even when we know it's not the right time. If we learn to be a bit more patient for what we want there will be an ease that will come when it's the right season.  In this blog I will provide 3 tips on how to be patient and

How to Structure Your Creative Interests Around Your Life and Work

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Guest Blogger/Writer Margaret Olat: A few years after I graduated from college, I was faced with the enormous responsibility of having to actually act like an adult. I could no longer sleep in till 12:30 pm and survive on ramen noodles. I had to wake up early to be at my internship by 8am, attend weekly worship rehearsals at church, and continue to nurture the audience I was building online. This became really overwhelming at one point as I was starting to feel uninspired at work and at church. I knew something had to happen because I wasn’t about to give up blogging for work. Neither did I want to give up my weekly rehearsals for being bright and sunny at work.   So, I discovered the structure to getting all these done while actually saving more time in the process. But before I share it with you, I have to warn you; this isn’t perfect. But it works because I continually have to assess how effective the system is. This is for you if you nurse the ambition to follow your