I love projects! and I’m always in the process of starting or finishing a project. One thing is for sure when a project is done another one has already started or has been in the waiting list for a long time, sometimes years. I don’t think I’m ever without a project in mind, and I don’t think I will ever be. My projects are my life, and my life is my best project I can show.

My projects have changed according to the phases of my life, but I remember having projects to do since I was as little as 8 years old, and I’m not talking about school projects. I’m talking about projects I would assign to myself, really! No one will tell me to do them. Like after browsing a magazine, I will want to make a collage. Watching my mom putting some makeup on, I would decide to make a book of makeup options, and so on. Today my projects are totally different, I have a variety from micro little projects to huge life transforming projects, but what I feel from them and for them is exactly the same.

Now I often wander, what is it about projects and setting up goals that I like so much?

Is it the satisfaction of seeing a final outcome manifest from the nothingness that it comes from?

Is it the empowering that comes from knowing I have the skills and talents required to solidify my ideas?

Is it showing to the world that all is possible in spite of the worlds negativity?

Is it because through them I can grow personally and professionally?

Definitely, all of the above. But there are some parameters I’ve learned along the way that are always helpful to keep in mind:

Projects are good as long as your happiness doesn’t depend on them. You must be whole and complete without the outcome of a goal. When you reach the final phase of your project, enjoy with plenitude the rewards of it and keep walking.

A project is only a tool or a means to an end. Never forget that reaching a specific goal doesn’t mean your work is done. Life has no finish line, no place to rest forever, not even after you’ve died. Life is infinite, and it’s grace lies in the fact that we can try it all over and over and over again.

Your Projects can only transform yourself and inspire others. Not the other way around. Sometimes, we put on our shoulders the project of changing others mistakenly thinking we would get inspired in the way. No need to say we are not responsible for others, therefore we cannot change them, only inspire them by walking the walk instead of talking the walk.

Without patience there is no outcome only emptiness. Most of the time we underestimate and miscalculate the time and way in which our goals will be reached. Worse yet, we strongly attach ourselves to our prognostics and expectation, because we cannot see with our surface mind the big picture. When a project doesn’t seem to be going in the right direction or doesn’t seem possible to complete, be patient, faithful and flexible everyday.

I’ve been getting a very creative project wave this last month, so I wanted to share with you some of the thoughts that come through my mind.