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I tend to get overwhelmed with large projects. Organizing, as I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, is not a strength of mine. I think I’ve often resembled Randie there with her arms on her head… except perhaps there’d be smoke coming out of my ears and the smell of frying brain matter.
oooh Mouse, that was totally the way to her heart lo….look at the overwhelming love thats in her eyes! 😛
When I get overwhelmed by a large project – which I kinda am right now – I try to look at just the next step and nothing more yet to do. And then, after a few steps are done, I look back at what I’ve accomplished and use that as encouragement to continue. Before too long, I see that over half of the large project is completed and that makes finishing even easier.
This works extremely well when raking a leaf-covered lawn.
Heather… Oh what an impetuous romantic you are. Like he said, safety first. Hey, it looks as if Mouse is willing to hold the ladder for Randie to scamper upon. Wadda guy.
Pete… Leaves are so frustrating under big trees. You rake the leaves off the lawns, and when you get back to where you started…the lawns are covered in frick’n leaves again. It rains leaves, you have to try to keep them under controlm but the leaf rain continues. Well, at least it’s not snow and ice, and eventually the trees do run out of leaves. They’re the worst when they form into a wet cementish gunk that clogs the rain gutters.
Yup, devotion and pacing are great…especially without interruptions and deadlines.
Heather… you’ll like this story. Wink.
Pete… I feel for you and your lawn. I’m guessing you’ll be shoveling snow before too long.
Stick…. I hate gunky gutters.
We’re still one Stooge short of where this trouble is heading…
Brig… *heh* No snow shoveling for me. Or not much, that is. Not only do I have fine, strong sons, I had a virus hit my heart about eight or nine years ago and had to have a defibrillator put into me. I’m fine now, but the defibrillator is still in me, preventing me from getting my heart rate too high. (It’s a really strange sensation, feeling it slowing down your heart.) So while I’m physically and health-ily fine to do that kind of work, the defib won’t let me.
Oh, my, Pete… a defib. Well, you just stay away from that stupid snow shovel. Slaves, I mean kids can do all that for sure!
LOL, gotta love Mouse… “Safety First” Indeed.