I’d rather write than talk. Nobody interrupts! Posting monthly or less now--see below. |
My original purpose for this blog, which I started in August of 2019, was to see if I could maintain consistency, to discover what I want to write about, and to find my writing voice. In January, I started a "niche-less" blog at Wordpress.com where I've published weekly. -- Kit’s Kontemplations . -- I'm preparing to start a Catholic blog on Wordpress.com where I'll post weekly, and another site to put the rest of my writing. I also want to spend more time reading other blogs and offering thoughtful comments, both here on WDC and elsewhere. At most, I will publish once a month at no set time in this blog starting in September of 2020. Thank you to those who have read and rated any posts on this blog. I really appreciate it. I did NOT want to write “about” me on this blog. I wanted to share my interests, discoveries and maybe a few useful insights. If anything I've written helps even one person, whether or not they respond to the post, then this blog has been successful. |
“Why is there never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it twice?” —Unknown I have a tendency toward perfectionism in a lot of things and I really don’t want to have to do something over again when I can do something else on my to-do list. I like to do things slowly and carefully, especially if it’s something that I’m not particularly good at. Believe me, that covers a lot of ground! When it is something I do often, I’m not always as careful, but not sloppy to the point of having to re-do it. I wonder if it’s a gender thing that women usually read instructions and men usally toss them? I do *read* them but I may not understand them, especially if there are diagrams. For some reason my brain doesn’t convert two-dimensional to three-dimensional. Give me a YouTube video. Please! So I’ll only have to re-do something when I didn’t understand the instructions to begin with. If the steps are not in the right order or were poorly translated into English, that can really mess me up. If I am doing something for the first time and I know that I will have to do it again in a month or a year, then I will document it to death. The most recent example of this in my life is installing Linux on my new laptop. I will have to do it again sometime in early 2023. Given that I’m in my sixties, it’s almost a guarantee I won’t remember any of these steps by then. How often do you have to re-do something? Is it because it really needs to be re-done or are you being a bit of a perfectionist? When you do have to re-do a thing, is it because you didn’t give it the necessary effort the first time or was it a mistake due to lack of experience and skill? Do you beat yourself up while you re-do a thing, or accept the need and do it with serenity, calm and focus? |