Living Juicy – Completion
Completing and procrastinating seem linked to me. I don’t complete some things because they are unpleasant in some way. When I do that I am putting of completion- aka procrastinating. An easy example of this is when I do laundry. I wash and dry all the clothes, fold most of them, but I never hang up the ones that go in the closet.
Except this last weekend. I actually completed the laundry in one evening, including hanging up the clothes. In fact, I reorganized my closet a little and found lots of clothes I didn’t even remember I had. There’s one good benefit of completing a task.
In fact, I’m going to make a list of things I’ve completed this week. Things that are done and done. No lingering sense of, “I should do that,” or “I still have to finish that”.
- Laundry – done and done.
- The Completing blog post – done and done.
- Took a kitty to the vet and got some (hopefully) allergy-free cat food – done and done.
- I sent in the application for a volunteering position. I’ll probably follow up with an email in a few days, but this step is done and done.
- I’m in the process of completing this container of dark chocolate truffles.
Now that I’m thinking about it, I haven’t actually completed as much as I thought. On the other hand, my therapist told me I have a tendency to be overly self critical. Maybe the fact that I’ve completed anything at all is a point in my favor.
What do you think? How do you determine when something is complete? What are some things you would like to complete, but haven’t? What have you completed in the last week? (Remember, there are a lot of things you can take credit for.)
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Next week’s theme in The Living Juicy Project is “Energizing”. I’m looking forward to that. I could use a little extra energy.
