I discussed in yesterday’s put up that I’ve actually been combating staying centered and motivated on engaged on our bed room these days. I need our bed room completed, however it’s all of these steps to get to that completed room that I’ve been combating.
Nicely, final night time, I used to be scrolling social media, as I do each night time as I’m winding down earlier than mattress. And I simply occurred upon a video that basically made me suppose. 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 challenge, whereas those that are actually productive don’t get slowed down on these particulars. As an alternative, those that are actually productive hold their essential concentrate on the payoff that comes when the challenge is completed.
I assumed that was actually insightful. And true. I believe that’s the issue I’ve had these days. I imply, let’s face it, this lobby and bed room challenge has required an entire 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 good distance from what they had been firstly of the 12 months. After watching that video final night time, I pulled up my 2025 Home Targets 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 wanting again at these photos. And it makes me really feel proud that the lobby and doorway into the closet seems so utterly completely different now, and this was completed by my very own two palms.
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 assumed the drywall was all completed.
However after watching that one little motivational video final night time, which couldn’t have been greater than a few minutes lengthy, I spotted that what she was describing firstly of that video was precisely the entice that I’ve fallen into over the previous few weeks. I stand up within the morning, each morning, and concentrate on solely on what I want to complete that specific 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 power myself to work, however I make excuses to take as many breaks as doable. And consequently, I’m simply extending the period of time it takes me to get via the tasks I don’t wish to do.
So after I watched that brief video, I started to concentrate on the payoff on the finish of this challenge. That payoff is fairly wonderful — a complete bed room suite utterly with a phenomenal lobby, a tremendous walk-in closet with a laundry space, a phenomenal bed room, and a tremendous toilet. All collectively. All completed. All one big, devoted house that can be our master suite suite.
By no means in my life did I believe I’d ever have such a tremendous bed room suite. And the one factor standing in the way in which of this imaginative and prescient being completed these days 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 tougher. My dread that retains me in a continuing cycle of searching 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 night time, 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 must get completed at the moment earlier than I can end the trim? I can get that completed very simply. Putting in the remainder of the trim and getting it wooden stuffed, sanded, and caulked? It’s not satisfying in any respect, however as soon as I get that completed, I can get to some enjoyable tasks like making an upholstered headboard! Putting in that mild within the lobby? Sure, it’ll require much more drywall patch work, however then I’ll have a stunning mild within the lobby and be on my method to having a completed and lovely lobby!
I truly wakened this morning excited and anxious to get in there and get the work completed. I haven’t felt that method in weeks. It truly is wonderful 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 brief video. We actually will 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 bought some drywall to complete, and a few trim to put in and end! And I’m truly feeling fairly enthusiastic about it at the moment!
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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn 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’ll be able to study extra about me right here.
