Finding Time and Balance as a Multi Disciplined Artist

I try to create time for my other muses that have been with me for years. Yoga, dance, music, painting and poetry are among them. Some weeks are not as successful as others for making time for them. It's an ongoing process and I take what I learned working at Winners in my early 20s to save time. Their strategy was to do actions that are similar at once to save on time. This is why when I am at school I take lunches and leave some for supper so that I can stay and do my school work. This effectively frees up some time for me on the weekend. Usually I have something that needs to be done that only needs a computer like research, doing up a document or making a blog entry. It's not just important to practice but important to have forms of inspiration such as books or taking time to study vlogs on youtube about abstract painting.

Today I was skimming through a book called The Everything Writing Poetry Book and there was a couple of passages that were particularly interesting near the beginning on pages 12-14.

I enjoy the section talking about allowing time for ideas to develop as a way of building stronger images and concepts.
Then it goes on to talk about Freudian and Jungian Psychology and the process that a poet has to go through of balancing the super egos expectations with the ids needs.
The superego symbolizes customs, rules, and laws that are handed down to us by parents, teachers and societies at large. The id represents our survival needs including the need to be authentic and express our innermost selves.
I reflected that any artist of any kind or any person would do well to find a balance between these elements. They are both needed and necessary but one over the other creates imbalance.
It's important to listen and take advice from mentors, teachers, parents etc but it is also wise to take those words with a grain of salt because another persons point of view is simply that. It is "their" point of view and more often than not exists inside a box, a vacuum.
All visionaries in history questioned the status quo and butted heads with people who considered themselves to be masters in their field. Later on though the small artists who rocked the boat went down in history as making a major impact on how our culture grew to be what it is in the present.
Just imagine what kind of culture we would have if every single artist of every kind did nothing but lap at their teachers and parents feet for approval. Nothing new would result, nothing genuine with integrity. The culture as a result would not grow. There are artists that whether the teacher, parents or society likes it or not will stand behind their vision and keep expressing as well as marketing it as a gem of importance.
After awhile people stroke their chins and say "Oh I see...."
I love learning new techniques and I am also in awe of learning how people throughout history had done things. But every artist has a voice inside that speaks to them of how it is to be done. And sometimes it hasn't been done before. Sometimes it's similar enough to what has been done that it's readily accepted.
Everyone has their biased opinions and preferences. A person can insist that their opinions are not opinions but an educated fact.
In my opinion they are still working through their own particular filter of perception. Something in their lives said "This is what is most important in art history and these are the best techniques, and this is the best form of art." The person has developed an opinion. They may not call it such simply because they have academia in a specific sector to back them up. A person across the world no less educated or practiced most likely has a completely different "opinion" and approach.
And that is after all what art is about. It is about the artists vision, unique form of expression and developing their own perception rather than that of others. The definition of an artist is not someone who does things to make other people happy. They do not busy themselves running around doing what everyone has told them to do because their way is the best and right way.
Artists evolve culture by expressing the current form of evolution that they inhabit.