Everybody knows how easy it is to start something and how
difficult it is to finish it.
I’d say that even more difficult than finishing it, is to
maintain it they way you want.
This is something I’ve recently realized through the Time
Challenge… I’m not good at maintaining certain things. It usually goes like
this: I do something and I like to do it well, and when I finish it, I cross it
from my to-do list and forget all about it, after all it’s all done and over
with :)
Time passes and now I’m totally focused on something else
right? I’m working on finishing the next task when suddenly, I look around and
there is the frog I just finished eating, very much alive, staring at me as if
I had never even touched it!
And that is a big problem when it comes to proper time
management, finishing something but not keeping it that way.
It’s just like cleaning your house. You can take a whole day
to clean it from top to bottom, to organize everything and leave it the way you
like, but then if you don’t keep it organized, next week when you separate a
day to clean it again, it will take you the same amount of time to finish it,
or even more.
That’s the cycle may people have fallen into. They never
have time for other things, they never seem to have spare time for anything new
or even to do the most important things they have to, because their current
responsibilities and the things they are used to doing takes up all of their
time.
Solution? Maintenance. Do something, finish it and work to
maintain it that way. If it is cleaning your room, clean it and keep it that
way until you have to clean it again. If it is your clothes, wash it, iron it
and put them away and keep it organized until you have to do it again. Same with
your house, same with everything you start and finish.
This is what I will be working on throughout this month. If you
are my partner in the Time Challenge or would like to be, you should as well ;)
I will be coming here at the end of each week to tell you (in the comments
section) how my “maintenance” is going and I would love, love to hear from you
as well.
Remember: A frog when eaten has got to remain dead; otherwise
it’s like having a “Michael Myers” kind of frog in your life. No matter how
many times you kill it, when you turn around, it is still coming for you O_o
