. Finishing Up

I want to talk about an F word for a minute.  Yes, organizationally, we have a great F word, “FINISH.”  For reasons which I won’t share here, I have been finishing during this past month.  The more I finish, the more that appears to need finishing.  In other words, as I’ve tried to “finish,” I realize I have routinely subsisted in a very unfinished state.

Start Ups Everywhere

Start something here and then abandon it.  Start something there and put it aside before its done.  Start something again and give it up before I get too far.  My whole environment is full of unfinished projects, plans, and purchases (you know the fabric which would make the cutest apron or the cross stitch that only needs 100 hours to finish which we buy and then never complete).

Finish Times Three

So my suggestion this week is to find three projects in your life which need finishing.  Make a written list of the particulars to get each project finished and spend the rest of this month doing just that:  FINISHING!

For myself, I’m going to:

1)   Purge through my quilting scraps and get rid of what won’t work well or I haven’t ever liked and get two quilt tops made up.

2)  Repair the leaky tap in the bathroom, go through my “pending” file and resolve outstanding issues, and return that choir music to the director.

3)  Walk through the house again and look for more unfinished items, list them, and get caught up.  The weather will soon turn, the holidays will be upon us, and there won’t be much more time for finishing until the beginning of the year.  It is time for me and you to FINISH now!

Find more helpful ideas in my House of Order Handbook.