Thread: Motivation

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

It's got nothing to do with procrastination, motivation, or even laziness.

I feel sorry for some people, you know the types who have no more than say three projects on the go at any time.

Where's the incessant learning curve, the need to find out more and learn more skills? I'd hate to count the number of things that are on the go in the home of the bitingmidge, but if you've been to the PDRacer.info pages lately you'll see there's another project that "appears" to be in some sort of doldrum.

The fantastic thing about having Brazillions of projects underway, is that inevitably, you'll feel like doing some work on one of them, even if it's only as an excuse not to work on another. Eventually, you do so much work on each project that completion becomes inevitable.

I'd prefer to see it as the product of a fertile mind rather than that of an unmotivated wretch!

Cheers,

P

I agree with all of your sentiments though I think motivation goes far beyond a fertile mind. I'm inclined to think individual personality profiles may indeed be more of an influence.

As far as setting things aside I suppose I'll have to finish off that project I started somewhere about 1992 one day. It's just that other interesting projects and natural tangents pop up from time to time.

Just have a beer and think about it

Originally Posted by Honorary Bloke

Could I interest anyone in three (or is it four?) scale model cars started 5 years ago and in varying stages of incompletion? I'd just toss 'em but then I couldn't tell myself that I'll get back on them one day soon. The lot includes a small airbrush paint spray compressor that has never yet been fired in anger.

Don't toss em
Same here bought in my erl 20's still haven't touched the Bentley finished the Roll's repaired the fire engine damaged in 3 moves and a few others.

What have you got HB

Ray

i get distracted verry easily i usualy have 2 or 3 projects going at a time as well as my veggie garden and i have landscaping on the go to. so when i get sick of doing one thing of sompthing gose rong i simply switch to another project to avoid having peices of wood flying accros the room.

I'm with Midge on this, I have far more projects on the go that I will ever EVER finish in this life time.

I also have far more hobbies than room &/or time to store them all but, I'm getting a container to store some more wood in just the same.

It makes you a little more interesting to talk to. ( My excuse. )

Anyway, back to SC. Allow me to draw your attention to Sections 7 & 8 of the Code of Practice.... they cover it fairly well I think.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Anyway, back to SC. Allow me to draw your attention to Sections 7 & 8 of the Code of Practice.... they cover it fairly well I think.

Which is entirely appropriate since the said Mr C was a major contributor to both of the sections in question.

Yes, as the great Frank Zappa said: you are what you is, and that's all it is.

You may have early onset of this:

Recently, I was diagnosed with : A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my cheque book off the table, and see that there is only 1 cheque left. My extra cheques are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.
The Coke is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye --they need water.

I put the Coke on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realise that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. At the end of the day:

the car isn't washed

the bills aren't paid

there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter

the flowers don't have enough water,

there is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book,

I can't find the remote,

I can't find my glasses,

and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day, and I'm really tired. I realise this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.

Do me a favour. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I
don't remember who the hell I've sent it to.

Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!

I try to work on stuff without a break in shed routine (family permitting) until such time it is time to sand the bastard. then work stops... i hate that.. the sanding not the stopping...

I aslo get easily distrac.........

I generally scrape/sand and finish as I go, so I spread that joy out a bit.

It's not that I find anything about finishing a job particularly onerous. It's more like I have a certain amount of enthusiasm for a job and once it runs out, it's gone. Sometimes it doesn't run out before I finish, so the job is finished before I get sick of it. Other times, it runs out before I get there.