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How Do you eat an Elephant?

8/27/2016

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"How do you eat an elephant? 
One bite at a time."
(Possibly Creighton Adams or Unknown)

That's how I do the jobs I don't want to do. I decide to, at least, just start it and work for a short bit. And, because I'm only committing for that start period, then I'm not overwhelmed about doing the whole job at once. Sometimes, though just getting it started helps me do a bit more than I thought I'd do. Once the job is started then I can come back several times in the day and do short stints at it, taking breaks to do other, more likeable things.  :)  And by the end of the day, I find I have 'accidentally' gotten a good portion of the overwhelming job done. Basically, I'm tricking myself into getting the job done one bite at a time. That's how I roll.  :)

Sneak up on it. 
Work on it for 10 minutes, go do something else, swoop back, conquer another 10 minutes. It's only 10 minutes, not the Whole Elephant at once. 

And don't beat yourself up about it. If you didn't get to it today! Just simply start the goal again tomorrow. No worries!  :)
Be kind to yourself. Encourage yourself like you were talking to your best friend.
 
Here's a very short youtube illustration.
It helps illustrate accomplishing your "thing". 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZpAYmUpx44
Put out by www.ThatsEasyLearning.com

If you point yourself in the right direction and just get the ball rolling by little nudges and bites then you will be further along in a month or year than you would have been if you waited for that impossible perfect thing before you start "It". 
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Marketing rant

8/25/2016

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Magazines, pinterest, tv, internet. 

They are all feeding us lies. They look so good that we eat them right up. I look through a magazine and there is an article on organizing so, of course, I head right to it. The featured mudroom is beautiful. The rug is a blue and white chevron, so 'in' right now.  And, imagine that, the whole family somehow managed to purchase coats in soothing blue tones. The dog leash is blue and of course his favourite ball is, you guessed it, blue. The shoes are tones of blue and white with a playful hit of red for the toddler's shoes. Even the teacher was considerate enough to send homework home in the approved mudroom colours. 

This is not life, my friends. 

It's a bit much, isn't it? Life isn't like that. How can a family's worth of sunglasses, homework, backpacks, purse, shoes, coats, books, rug, the detrius and minutia of life all be the same matching style?

I'm not taking any of it. 
I'm with Twisted Sister on this one.  "We're not gonna take it"   Bahaha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmckWVPRaI

My whole families necessities of life are Not going to be in this seasons approved colours. 
​Twisted Sister and I are free. 
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