I moved recently, and in my transition, I've found it very difficult to focus. Yesterday in my new neighborhood in New York I found a treasure: an actual, real, big bustling supermarket - with real price scanners, aisles, produce sections, bulk foods, and lots and lots of snack options. I can't believe I now have affordable choices beyond $5 crackers at the bodega.
And inside this newfound homeland of grocery shopping, there in 'the cookie aisle' was my favorite studio snack: the lemon cream cookie with the painted cockateel on the package. It was like finding a long lost friend.
When I have trouble focusing on my work, I like to trick myself with an obsessive routine I call the studio snack. This is one favorite snack of mine that I only allow myself to eat while in the studio. After a while of studio snacking and focused working, the precious snack becomes like a mental and physical trigger, signaling now it is time to work on your work and shut out all the other noise in your head. It's simple, and self-indulgent, and it seems successful.
So now while adjusting to living and working on this other coast in this crowded, dirty, noisy city, my cockateel cream cookies are helping me shut out those screeching distractions and focus. Plus anything involving treats, as we know, becomes a sacred ritual. Yay.
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