I got a bunch of stuff done today, that I’ve been wanting to finish all year. And I’ll have another done tomorrow morning. I had to wait though, to get what I needed to finishing these things. And now they are memories of things done, that I can forget about. For the sake of planning and patience though, it is important for me to remember the wait, and be grateful that I finally got those thing I needed for so long.
There a never ending list of things still to do, most of which will never get done. Most of those things are better as ideas then as something to actually do. Relevant things though, those “one thing” class of things (from the book: “The One Thing”), they are on the list of serious effort. My garden, my water supply (like an irrigation well), solar power, my driver’s license (I lost it from back to back DUIs about eleven years ago), a powered vehicle, stuff like that. Those are things to do.
My productive work projects are largely intellectual property, not things. Like my book (Americanism. The Life Guiding Principles of Freedom), my software projects, this David-Daily blog, my graphic design projects, and the Information Development work I do for paying customers.
In both cases, I am not kept from working on things, just finishing things that require additional resources I have not yet gotten. Where customers are concerned, we are waiting on their getting additional resources needed to complete the work.
So we wait, patiently, attentively, to finish and forget. 🙂
And where an escalation is in order, it happens.
None of this is stressful anymore though, as I accept these sorts of things as normal and healthy in productive living. That’s why I do more than one thing at a time, unless I’m on it with what I need to finish.
Finishing.
Finishing is for me, a big part of the payoff. And the harder the project, the bigger the payoff. I don’t get hired to do the easy things, most of the time. Easy is boring.
Finishing produces a tangible piece of wealth, and that wealth is banging too. Be it a salable book, code to process large batches of nitpickery, or even the building of soil in a garden. When done, I have more than I had prior to finishing. If not, then why do it?
For me, being productive is my reward. Living the day well, having something to show for it. And having done so honestly, respectfully of myself and all involved. I like being someone I’d like to know. It wasn’t always this way.
Remembering the wait helps my patience for things that haven’t gotten here yet. “This too shall pass.” is a cliche for a reason, it is common and true. I keep at it, and each and everyday, I get to see what happens. Today, long delayed projects got done. Broken things fixed, my life is better for it.
Do you ever draw on past payoffs of patience, to stay patient for things you’re still waiting on?
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David Weeks, Information Developer, Tampa, Florida.