Focus, Focus Part 5 - Don't you love Sundays?

I love Sundays, they are slow moving no pressure days or should be! Around here things are generally pretty quiet. I start the day with Sunday Morning, a news show that actually has something decent to say. While I am listening more then watching that I am usually putting the house in order or working in the studio. This is my no guilt day, so that means no paperwork, bill paying, running errands, no gotta dos unless they happen to be what I wanna do.

Today I opted for playing in the studio, browsing some books, and posting some vacation pics on Facebook!

Here are yet more squares for the 9 patch quilt featured in Focus, Focus project.



All in all I am feeling very good about this exercise. To understand why I have taken this pledge all one would have to do is look in my studio or for that matter anywhere in my life. Everywhere there are bits and pieces of unfinished processes and I have come to realize that I need to practice completing the process. Be it the unfinished bathroom that is still sinkless after > 6 months, the multiple journals that have been started to chronicle something or other, the dozens of quilt projects, the trim that is missing in my daughter's room, and the list goes on and on. In short I have become "an unfinisher" and what's worse it is dragging on my sense of peace and focus, so thus "Focus, Focus" was born! A project that I am adamant to finish - completely - from conception to binding and labeling! There done! To spur me on to do the same in all areas of my life or at least most. I know my neighbors will thank me if I can follow through with mowing the lawn,  keeping my garden, and finishing the Iris bed in the front yard.

In short I have to realize, while, yes I can do anything! I cannot do it all at once for I am only one person and I surely would be much happier finishing a few of these projects! After all, we don't visualize these projects forever unfinished. That means saying "NO" a whole lot more to those who would love to have me join the guild, work a few more hours, check out this new shop or craft, and most of all to myself who is forever saying oh it is just a small project, oh it is just 6 more hours a week, oh it will be so nice to finish this new project! It means building up my determination and shifting my priorities to the here and now, not what could or will be! In short - "GET A CLUE, JOANNE" this may seem harsh, but I think that a good lot of our society should "GET A CLUE"! Oops, I almost referred to our government as an example! ;-)

So please, if you are feeling at odds with the world, just take a moment to Focus, Focus and be present in the right here and now and see if it makes a difference in your life. After all how many toys do we need, how many activities to make us feel whole - not what society says, but what you say makes you feel whole! Take a moment and think about it, won't you?