master the art of completion

Start w litle things around the house

there will be a wedding celebration – and I pieced together a quilt top for the members to sign and to commemorate the event. I finished it in just the right time. I am going to go drop it off so they can have it – I have to go elsewhere so I am not going to be able to participate.

I completed this and it feels good – so many times in the past I’ve not completed things (like the tree skirt goal and the shadow box goal!) and it feels good to not have to call up and say “Sorry, but I didn’t get that done!” I want to be more of that type of person who says, “I want my room to be yellow” and within the month they are sitting in their room which is now yellow! ~Not still sitting in their room a year later saying, “I wish my room was yellow!”

I did add a specific goal in relation to this goal that I hope will help it along to how I’d really want it – complete (non-stressed) ahead of time. Procrastination does tend to make my “completion ratio” lower. So, if I work on these two goals in tandem I might see double the benefits!

My advice: outsource your guilt and humiliation to someone you love and respect. The world is flat, after all. It’s what Tim Ferriss would do.

What do I mean, exactly? Simple: tell someone — tell lots of someones — what you’re doing, when you’re going to be done, how excited you are about it, how important it is to you, and so on.

Now you’ve got risk. You fail, and everyone is going to know. Put that fear of failure to good use! Now what’s going to prevent the negative payoff of everyone knowing what you want to get done: a couple solid hours of work, however boring, or “just one more” round of Desktop Tower Defense?
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/read-this-now-stop-procrastinating-and-get-stuff-done-or-else.html

Back from lunch with one of my favorite people…time to buckle down and get to work…

1. Do laundry

2. Bring Christmas stuff down to garage

3. Go food Shopping

4. Take out garbage

5. Get dishes done and clean up kitchen, including floor

6. Clean up behind sofa

7. Clean garage out

8. Make Christmas shopping list for tomorrow

9. Deposit C.’s check (thanks C!)

10. Fold clothing in room and make bed

11. Wax eyebrows, bikini and arms (ugghhh…but girls must be fabulous…it’s the law).12. Do some room organization

13. Vacuum in living room and bedroom

14. Glue glass lampshade that broke

15. make tomato sauce

16. Spiff up the bathroom a bit.

17. Finish last bit of dishes.

18. Go Christmas Shopping

19. Put ravioli together

20. Wrap up christmas presents

21. Do hair treatment (again with the fabulous crap)

22. Clean waxing equipment

A clean kitchen and computer area are enough to cheer up my mind…

Didn’t wax my legs, bikini, etc. again…dudes, I better wear pants tomorrow (LOL)...

I’ll add a new list to follow up the previous list…I’m going DEEP on this damn house…plus adding some stuff I forgot..

1. clean out pantry
2. clean off la-z Susan, it’s dusty

3. vacuum living room

4. clean walls living room
5. clean walls kitchen
6. clean walls my bedroom
7. clean walls blossom’s room
8. clean walls bathroom
9. clean windows, living room and kitchen
10. clean windows, bedrooms and bathroom
11. clean all drapes
12. clean bathroom: floor, tub, sink, toilet.

13. dust shelf in bathroom

Now that’s some real work. We’ll see how I do.

I have so much to effing do and so little time to do it in. Frankly, it’s more than annoying. I got so much done this weekend and still have a mountain in front of me.

1. Clean off the kitchen counter spaces

2. Do the dinner dishes and put everything away (when you cook a lot, you get a lot of dishes).

3. Clean out the stove

4. Clean the refrigerator well

5. Clean off the computer area

6. Bring all the Christmas stuff up and start decorating, baby

7. Organize the livingroom stuff, put away the sewing machine.

8. Trudge through my inbox in my room.
9. Wax my legs

10. Pedi…(OK this may not seem important to you, but women are expected to be fabulous, and it takes work).

11. Tomorrow, meet my client for house-searching in Pasadena

12. Tomorrow, jog the Rose Bowl (I’ve committed myself)

13. Tomorrow, go somewhere in Hollywood with the girls (I’ve committed myself but may have to back out).

14. Shredding confidential docs. and those damn offers that come pouring in the mail.

15. Return bread maker to garage

16. Water all the plants outside (I can’t forget this, these guys need water…that’s not fair).

Uggghhhhh…I’ve got a crappy attitude at the moment…but I predict as I start crossing stuff off this list my outlook will improve.

Right now I’m about to pull a meatloaf out of the oven and eat…that will improve my outlook too.

Gosh, it feels good to vent!!!!!!

Cheers, darlings…you see, I’m all cheered up now.

I’m going to say I have not yet mastered the art of completion. I’ve accomplished a lot in 2006, but not what I started out saying I was going to do.

-mosaic table-12-29-06: not done

-cross-stitch-12-29-06: not done

-painting-12-29-06: not done

-clean garage-12-29-07: DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE

-finish “conversations with God” (book)-12-29-06: not done

-finish “7 habits of highly effective teens” for my daughter (book)-12-29-06: not done

-finish “loser” for my daughter (book)-12-29-07: DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE

-finish real estate license extension requirements-12-29-07: DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE

-finish bookshelf project-12-29-07 – DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE

-finish bringing donations to church-12-29-07 – DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE

-call the people I need to call on (Delia, Dad, Aunt Sue, Caragh, Mary, Joanne, Aunt Grace)-12-29-07: DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE

-coordinate “family time” activities-12-29-06: not done

-coordinate monday night concerts in the park w/friends-12-29-06 – not done

-get daughter signed up in activity-12-29-07: DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE

-peel off those last 8 pounds-12-29-06: not done

-catalog library-12-29-07-DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE

-create real estate and investment organization system-12-29-07: DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE