Start-itist

I realized today that I am really suffering start-itist, I start a lot of things but never finish them.  When we started our sequester and I thought it was only going to be roughly 3 weeks, I had a note to reframe things to look at the things that I could do.  I could sort our plastic, I could tackle cleaning the office.

Well today I recorded a video podcast (I was the guest, woohoo!) and I realized that my office did not present a good backdrop it was a mess and the lighting wasn't fantastic for a video but perfectly fine for work.   I wanted to just hang a sheet over the bookcase and it would be a clean look and be done with it.  Mr. Padawan said nope, clean the bookcase we need to clean the office.  So I did spend the morning and moved stuff around on the bookcase and it looked good for the video.

I moved stuff down towards one end of the office, I am feeling a bit of a renewed purpose to just get it done.  I am hoping to keep making progress and finally get this done.  One of the big sources of clutter is my kids artwork, and holy cow I unearthed the stuff to make the baby books for my boys.  Most of the art work is already fading and looking worse for wear and it was just sitting on a bookshelf, I really need to take the plunge and photograph the pieces and dispose of most of them and only keep a few of them.  That was actually one of my 18 for 2018 that I never got to finish.

I also started to work on the crochet blanket that I had put away for a year, and well it is put off to the side again!  

I started re-reading Better Than Before, but umm got sidetracked again. Oopps! :)

I started sorting the plastic food storage and did one round of sort and toss but I know I could have been a bit stronger with the purge so I can do this again, I really didn't complete it.

Yesterday I started Jillian Michael's beginner shred, this is a 30 day program that I have done before, but I wanted to start again to help avoid gaining the COVID-19! :)  I am hoping that I keep it up and make it the whole 30 days.

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