"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."
Olin Miller
"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible."
George Claude Lorimer
"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task"
William James
Taking the first step was very difficult!
We got the hardest thing done first . . . moving the large pieces of furniture in the living room.
I've written about my problem with procrastination many times. It is like a curse that plagues me. Actually, it is pure and simple overwhelm. We just sat down and talked about the big picture of what we want to accomplish . . . then broke it down into the task that we would make the biggest leap into getting it going.
The plan was made to start the next day . . . just the one task . . . and how to tackle it with the promise to each other that we would JUST DO IT and not put it off any longer.
Even though it was a small step to the big picture, the good news is that it has started the forward motion of consistently working on it every day. Accomplishment feels good and calls for more as improvement is made. Fall cleaning and rearranging the house continues!
Getting things done is a great feeling!
