I’ve been lax. Living the good life. Not working on the house like I should.
On the one side, day-to-day life interferes. Cooking and cleaning and watching House and Leverage and Inkheart. Hey, I earned it, working on the house for the past year-and-a-bit.
On the other side, I’m lazy. And the credits I built up, working on the house for the past year-and-a-bit, are pretty much spent.
So I need to get my arse in gear.
And my guru Bob Hoover is on exactly the same wavelength, today.
Here it is: Do something every day. That is, something leading toward the completion of whatever it is you’re trying to do, such as building a house, overhauling an antique car, building an airplane from scratch… It doesn’t matter what you’re building. Or rather, trying to build. The secret of success is to do something every single day. It doesn’t matter what it is… drilling a single hole, setting a single rivet or whatever, what matters is that you Do It! Every day. No exceptions nor excuses.
Here’s why it works: Every project has a finite number of steps. If you do even one of those steps every day you will eventually run out of things to do; the project will be finished.
No, you can’t make bargains with yourself, such as promising to do five things next Saturday instead of one thing every night for the coming week. That’s not allowed. You have to do something every single day.
What you’re doing here is developing the habit of doing something every day.
Yeah, it sounds kinda wacky. But it works.
Yes Sir, Mr Hoover, I’ll get on to it right away.
(I did do some wiring over the weekend (added two plug points to the kitchen, and let me tell you, it was a lot more work than I anticipated) and I’ve made a start on the kitchen kick plates — because I know there’s only one way to get something done and that’s to actually do it.)