Do you finish every project you start?
How many unfinished projects do you have laying about your house, waiting for you to pick them back up and finish them?
What makes you stop working on a project you started?
How do you get yourself to finish something you put down?
I am notorious for not finishing my projects whether it be crocheting, oil painting, even learning a new piece on the piano. It seems like I get to a certain point (never really the same "point" in any project) and something makes me put it down. Sometimes it'll be years before I get the (?) whatever it is that I can't name - to pick up the project and work on it again. For example, my 12 year afghan.
Another example would be all the sewing I started, mending I never finished, and on and on.
Or a piece that Eric Clampton wrote that I love and was teaching myself to play on the piano. I got through the first few stanzas, it started sounding pretty good and then - ? - I stopped, left the sheet music for "Tears In Heaven" on top of my old upright, never to look at it again.
What makes me do this? Am I afraid to finish anything for fear it won't be perfect?
Leave a comment and tell me what you think. It's driving me nuts. It's driving my family nuts too because I have little piles of projects all over the place that I don't put away anywhere, waiting for me to work on them. I am afraid to put them on a shelf in the closet (there wouldn't be room there anyway!) for fear I would forget about them.
How do you get started?
More importantly, how do you make sure you finish your work?
What do you do with your project when you're done with it?
I would have posted photos of all the messes I have - well, projects I am working on all over the house but it's too embarrassing. lol. Maybe I will anyway.
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I hope you don't mind that I don't have my own url to post comments with, I've always used Google's url. I was thinking about starting my own blogsite but I don't know if it takes much time and time is something I don't have a lot of. Do you spend a lot of time with yours?
I do the same thing.
Perhaps it is the fact that we cannot die, because we have so much yet to finish.
Maybe it is deeper than that.
I have had goals to get each started thing done one thing at a time.
And after two weeks they are put back with more done, but not finished.
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