I once worked with a woman who cheerfully announced that she was a starter but not really a finisher. The scrapes that led me into! I don’t miss them. Sometimes I miss parts of my old life. I occasionally look at the Twitter feeds that I was associated with and consider contributing to the conversation. However despite probably having a certain amount to contribute I look away again. The problem is that one foot into that world would undoubtedly come with a significant amount of stress. My life now is about trying to live a flourishing and creative life and to that end I am deliberately avoiding situations that may trigger stress.
As part of my habit building, which helps deal with stress I did a longish walk with the dogs this morning. There is a circuit that takes about an hour, so I did that. My legs are feeling it, but I am feeling better for it. My stress levels would have been right down had it not been for Mabel deciding to roll in some sort of animal poo. I had to come home and shower her, something that neither of us enjoyed!
I am writing early today because I am going to Knit and Natter later and don’t want to be writing afterwards. I have a pile of things to take with me. Having started something new last night and frogged it twice, I decided finishing was really what I should be doing. So there’s Chris’ jumper, the village fish and a knitted cardigan that I started for me some time ago. I think that I need to go through the cupboards and finish anything else that is outstanding. I know that I have two blankets and a small throw that I started whilst I was in the UK in February. So perhaps before I move on to anything else I should finish all of these. Finishing is good for flourishing, so I should bear this in mind.
Until tomorrow…
Tales from the Sheshed France 
Love those colours!
On finishing: it’s easily solved by not starting too much 😂
We know each other well enough to admit we have always set ourselves too much to do! I still do it – and it’s obvious you still do too! Today is sunny here – I have a mental list of things that desperately need doing in the garden. I don’t stand a hope in hell of completing the list today – but mentally that list is there for today! SO I am designing in failure!!!
Some days life gives us undoable workloads – but most days we do that to ourselves!
Perhaps we just need to adapt OUR approach to tasks? AND chill if we don’t manage to tie up the whole list 🤗😘🤗
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