I have so many started but unfinished projects in the house. It seems like my motivation is high when the project looms large before me; once the most egregious flaws of the area are fixed, though, I find myself drawn to new big projects rather than the picky sticky yicky stuff at the end of the current one.
So last weekend I painted the bedroom...mostly. Ran out of paint with one half of one wall left. Picked up more paint, but never picked the project back up. Painted the living room....except for the base trim. Re-tiled the bathroom floor, but still haven't put up the matching tiles around the base of the wall. Painted the hallway but need to put the curtain rods and curtains back up.
And I know all this needs to be done, and yet somehow "paint trim in living room" keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the (very large) to do list!
How do I motivate myself for these underwhelming detail tasks? (Probably with the knowledge that I can't post an "after" picture here on TDH until I do them! You'll note you all haven't seen many pictures lately.)
Comments (3)
Och, details suck.
But think, you could do a big Macro job once a weekend, then in one weekend, go around and tidy up all the last details on all of them.
Whammo! You've done XXX things this weekend! :)
Posted by dbs | February 22, 2008 9:04 AM
Posted on February 22, 2008 09:04
Yes, pics. We MUST have pictures.
:)
I'm really bad at this, too.
Posted by Jennifer | February 22, 2008 11:08 AM
Posted on February 22, 2008 11:08
Hiveminder, I'm tellin ya.
You put it all in there, and you put in all the "but firsts," and then you only see what you have to do first.
And then you go through those, and go "don't show me this for X amount of time," and boom: manageable list.
('Course, if you don't finish the manageable stuff before X passes, you get your stuff back and you have to "don't show me this" again, which is where my list is today. But I still got to check off one of my longstanding errands today, so hey. You take your successes where you find them.)
Posted by Karen in Wichita | February 22, 2008 11:03 PM
Posted on February 22, 2008 23:03