Day 2- Santa's workshop
This is an interesting project. I decided to clean my entire house in one day. I began in Santa's workshop (ie- our bedroom) and low and behold at the end of the day, I was still in the bedroom working on it. It wasn't because it was an enormous mess, but I'm so easily distracted. ADHD is a real thing. I finally called in the troops to carry holiday stuff to put away downstairs.
When I say at the end of the day, I mean 5:30 pm. I always want something accomplished by the time my husband gets home or I gets off work. In the past I've realized it takes me twice as long to finish a goal. In the case of cleaning the house (to my perfection) I usually give up after two hours and go onto making more messes, but I stuck with the task. I only got one room finished, so now I must move onto failing at being a success at my failure. Today I will attempt to clean my whole house excluding the one room I just finished. This is a lofty goal since holidays take a toll on our house.
Wish me luck.
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I'm finding a change of attitude in myself. If I start to complete a task, I'm looking ahead to how I can make it impossible to accomplish, but not in a bad way. Let's say my goal is to do the dishes. Well... as I am finishing up that task, I am thinking to myself "Success. Now go fail." I move onto wiping the counters and see something that needs to be moved. I've been thinking of moving it for months, but always seem to be in the middle of something else and can't get it done. Now I'm taking on the task because I want to see if I can actually get it done. I'm not stopping because I am procrastinating, I'm moving forward because I am deliberately trying to do too much.
I don't even know if that makes sense, but it will.
When I say at the end of the day, I mean 5:30 pm. I always want something accomplished by the time my husband gets home or I gets off work. In the past I've realized it takes me twice as long to finish a goal. In the case of cleaning the house (to my perfection) I usually give up after two hours and go onto making more messes, but I stuck with the task. I only got one room finished, so now I must move onto failing at being a success at my failure. Today I will attempt to clean my whole house excluding the one room I just finished. This is a lofty goal since holidays take a toll on our house.
Wish me luck.
(
I'm finding a change of attitude in myself. If I start to complete a task, I'm looking ahead to how I can make it impossible to accomplish, but not in a bad way. Let's say my goal is to do the dishes. Well... as I am finishing up that task, I am thinking to myself "Success. Now go fail." I move onto wiping the counters and see something that needs to be moved. I've been thinking of moving it for months, but always seem to be in the middle of something else and can't get it done. Now I'm taking on the task because I want to see if I can actually get it done. I'm not stopping because I am procrastinating, I'm moving forward because I am deliberately trying to do too much.
I don't even know if that makes sense, but it will.
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