I discussed in yesterday’s put up that I’ve actually been scuffling with staying targeted and motivated on engaged on our bed room currently. I would like our bed room completed, however it’s all of these steps to get to that completed room that I’ve been scuffling with.
Effectively, final evening, I used to be scrolling social media, as I do each evening as I’m winding down earlier than mattress. And I simply occurred upon a video that basically made me assume. I want I’d have saved the video as a result of I can’t discover it now, however I discovered it very attention-grabbing, however I’ll attempt to summarize it. The lady on the video was saying that the primary factor standing in the way in which of people that battle with productiveness is that they get slowed down in specializing in the dread of every step that’s required throughout a mission, whereas those that are actually productive don’t get slowed down on these particulars. As an alternative, those that are actually productive hold their important deal with the payoff that comes when the mission is completed.
I believed that was actually insightful. And true. I feel that’s the issue I’ve had currently. I imply, let’s face it, this lobby and bed room mission has required a complete lot of drywall work, and of all of the DIY stuff I do, drywall is absolutely the worst. I imply, I simply can’t even stand doing drywall.
The lobby and bed room have come a great distance from what they have been in the beginning of the yr. After watching that video final evening, I pulled up my 2025 Home Objectives put up that I wrote in January, and I used to be truly stunned after I was reminded how these areas used to look. The drywall within the lobby was a catastrophe.
It makes me really feel anxious simply trying again at these photos. And it makes me really feel proud that the lobby and doorway into the closet seems so fully completely different now, and this was accomplished by my very own two fingers.
However on the similar time, I’ve discovered myself getting up each morning and dreading the work. I don’t wish to work on trim anymore. And I used to be particularly discouraged after I felt like I used to be going backwards and tackle the drywall state of affairs but once more even after I believed the drywall was all completed.
However after watching that one little motivational video final evening, which couldn’t have been greater than a few minutes lengthy, I noticed that what she was describing in the beginning of that video was precisely the entice that I’ve fallen into over the previous couple of weeks. I stand up within the morning, each morning, and deal with solely on what I would like to complete that exact day (drywall, difficult trim points, unlevel flooring, and many others.), and I simply really feel dread. I haven’t felt enthusiastic about my work in weeks. I’ve to drive myself to work, however I make excuses to take as many breaks as attainable. And because of this, I’m simply extending the period of time it takes me to get by way of the initiatives I don’t wish to do.
So after I watched that quick video, I started to deal with the payoff on the finish of this mission. That payoff is fairly superb — a complete bed room suite fully with a good looking lobby, an incredible walk-in closet with a laundry space, a good looking bed room, and an incredible toilet. All collectively. All completed. All one large, devoted house that might be our main bedroom suite.
By no means in my life did I feel I’d ever have such an incredible bed room suite. And the one factor standing in the way in which of this imaginative and prescient being completed currently is me and my mindset — my mindset that has been caught on the dread of getting to do extra drywall work, and the dread of getting to take care of unlevel flooring that make putting in trim more difficult. My dread that retains me in a relentless cycle of on the lookout for and making excuses for needing fixed breaks from the duty in entrance of me that I actually don’t wish to do.
However final evening, after I began focusing as an alternative on the payoff on the finish of this, I did truly discover a change. I began to get actually excited. That drywall work that I have to get accomplished as we speak earlier than I can end the trim? I can get that accomplished very simply. Putting in the remainder of the trim and getting it wooden stuffed, sanded, and caulked? It’s not fulfilling in any respect, however as soon as I get that accomplished, I can get to some enjoyable initiatives like making an upholstered headboard! Putting in that gentle within the lobby? Sure, it’ll require much more drywall patch work, however then I’ll have a beautiful gentle within the lobby and be on my method to having a completed and beautiful lobby!
I truly awoke this morning excited and anxious to get in there and get the work accomplished. I haven’t felt that manner in weeks. It truly is superb what a change in mindset can do. So from right here on out, I’m going to problem myself to maintain the payoff on the forefront of my thoughts as an alternative of getting slowed down within the dread of the duty immediately in entrance of me. I’m so glad I occurred upon that quick video. We actually might be our personal worst enemies generally, and generally all it takes is a random two-minute video on social media to make us notice that.
So now, I’ve acquired some drywall to complete, and a few trim to put in and end! And I’m truly feeling fairly enthusiastic about it as we speak!
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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You may study extra about me right here.
