. . . and Gittin’ $h*t Done.
Okay. True confession. I am GREAT when it comes to meeting a deadline. Every time. All my life. In fact, I have met every deadline I’ve ever needed to meet. No questions asked.
That said . . .
When it comes to things that can be done . . . well . . . any time? As in things you might like to take care of, but you don’t actually have to take care of? That stuff? It accumulates for me. On lists. In piles on my desk. Carried around in my head. (And I’ve tried “setting deadlines” on that kind of stuff. They’re not “real deadlines, though. And I know it.*)
Every once in a while, though, I just call UNCLE on myself and decide to Git. $h*t. Done. And right now? The time has come! I’ve got my master list. I’ve set aside the time. And I am Doing It.
Which means . . . there isn’t a lot of blogging “content” in my life at the moment. I mean, who wants to hear about cleaning my watercolor palettes (something I’ve put off for years; such a tedious job that I actually bought a new palette to avoid cleaning my old palette). (Yeah. I know.) Who wants to take a trip to Goodwill with me? (No one. Ever.) Shred a box of documents? (Again. I am on my own here.) Shop for a new up-north refrigerator? Dig through to the very bottom of my (actual, not email) inbox and deal with the (actual, not digital) documents lingering there? Finally measure for, and then order, blinds for my patio sliders? Tackle my sewing room?
Right.
(And the list goes on, my friends.) (Exciting stuff.)
So. Now you know.
I’m taking care of business this month.
And blogging may be slow.
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
— William James
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*In Gretchen Rubin’s “four tendencies” structure, I am a Questioner. And this is classic Questioner behavior. When I decide something has a deadline, it has a deadline . . . and I meet it. But if I haven’t decided it has a deadline (yet) . . . I probably won’t. It’s all in the deciding.
I’m raising my hand over here… “Me! Me! I’ll go to Goodwill with you!” (I love a good purge.) Enjoy all the ticks off your list and the space and possibility that comes from it.
You wrote this post TO me! I need to decide, too, and then, GITITDONE! *sigh*
Let’s talk soon!
When you’ve been blogging for years, sometimes the well just runs dry, yet daily life and mundane tasks still need to be accomplished. I am shredding along with you to make some room in my file cabinet, and also looking at the six bags and boxes piled up here for donation and thinking I should have gone to Goodwill with you!
Right there with you!
What you wrote just described me. I have kitchen and bathroom cabinets, a pantry and a desktop to clean. Maybe today? Oh and clothes to go through that I’ve kept thinking I’ll fit into them again…like that will ever happen!
Funny (or not so much) how these mundane tasks really can pile up. I have a list (in my head) of a million and one things to take care of…but first..vacation! We don’t shred…but I have a pile of stuff from the filing cabinets to burn the next time we have a fire in the pit!
Its kind of a pain when you first get into it, but the payoff is HUGE! Then you get back to the things you ENJOY doing.
I’d happily do all of these things alongside you!
Yep. Deadline person here. And yep. I know when a deadline is fake. I TRY and make myself recall how good I feel when I cross an evergreen task off my list, and sometimes that does motivate me. Sometimes. In other words, I hear ya.
“And I know it!” hahahaha. Yes. I can never dupe myself into that made up shit, either.
I would definitely want to hear about the Goodwill adventure!
Oh, you mean this is why I have a sweater in progress that I haven’t touched since April 1 — because it doesn’t have a deadline? I guess maybe I should give it one. Best of luck with doing all that not-so-fun-but-very-necessary stuff. Here’s hoping it goes quickly and you can be back here with more exciting things to share soon.
Sometimes just giving in to the “get shite done” voice is the only answer! (I made huge progress on my painting space… but I need to wash the palettes… oy. Not looking forward to that one… at.all.)
You read my mind.
This is an eye opener because I am also a deadline person. That is why I join KALs! Now I need to apply that idea to some of the things I don’t like to do – like cleaning 🤣
with ya 100% on all of it … until you got to the sewing room part. I would LOVE to peek into that room with you! and I’m a very good tidier (when I’m in the mood) 🙂
Yes to being a deadline person and yes to leaving nagging boring tasks undone. Right now I have two big tasks in progress and am not very motivated to complete either. One is the fall weeding which will take at least two passes and the other is the kitchen cupboards, inside and out. I wish the best for you as you tackle all these jobs. And as a blog reader, I understand and I’ll be here when you return and/or post.