I’m still liking this resolution I have to finish something I started every week. I keep battling with myself because I want to start projects that I have been wanting to do for a long time (creating another project I probably won’t finish) vs. actually finishing something I have already started! Does anyone else have this problem?
This week I worked on finishing reading The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by the Toltec Healer, Don Miguel Ruiz. Don Miguel Ruiz is a physician who had near-death experience and decided to leave the medical field for his family tradition to pass on ancient teachings for one generation to the next and become Toltec Healers.
As far as a book review, this is a very cooky but awesome book. It feels archetypal and pokes my primitive unconscious. In summary, he talks about how we are all dreaming the worlds dream and as we get older, we build agreements with ourselves that are based on this dream. In order to escape a dream of hell we need to create new agreements based on our own dream. Living in our own personal heaven is freedom. The language may be dreamy, but the principles you can apply to your life are spot on. They are principlies that I would like to work on and plan to use as a psychoeductional tool during therapy sessions.
I do have to note that there are a few points made that I do not agree with from a therapeutic point of view, but for the most part this is a great book for personal reflection. I’ve been wanting to finish it forever…and I did. Hooray, Hooray!
You can buy The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) HERE
This coming week I’m hoping to finish a couple sewing projects and maybe a tutorial!
Husband also finished something he started this week! He has been telling the girls he would build them a stage in their room forever, and even bought some legs at IKEA….but never got around to it. So this week he borrowed a saw, pulled out a big slab of butcher block we had hanging around and attached the feet. Super easy, and they love it!!
Wanted to share this one too. These guys love each other so much!
So per my resolution to finish something I started every week, I finally finished our homemade christmas ornaments.
We made random clay sculptures that sat on the counter forever waiting to have a clear coat on them. I kind of dread doing stuff like this because I know that Husband will do something weird…but this year it worked out because he made a couple things and then I just picked the one I wanted to use! So sweet of me right? And yes, a black spider is the best. He created a hand with the “rock on” symbol and black finger nails as the second piece. Three years ago we made little faces of our selves and he made a bloody mouthed head that hangs upside down. I have to look at it every year. But it’s okay because they give us laughs and memories (this is what I tell myself every year when I cringe….sorry Husband)!
Anyone else finally finish something this week? Please share! Send me a picture and I’ll post them next week.
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I am following through with the idea of posting about my weekly resolution to finish something that was left to the wayside of ADHD road.
I’m not sure as to what will qualify– Does it have to been started months before? Can I just finish something I started earlier in the week and forgot about? Does it need to be something huge? I’m not sure yet. I think a major qualifier is if I finish it…will it give me a sense of relief and accomplishment? Yes?! It’s a go.
What I do know is that I have a growing list of projects that I can focus on to reach my goal. For example, my sewing machine cover that has been sitting in my “projects” bin for more than 6 months! Or, the 10 or more books that I have sitting in my “currently reading” shelf that I have not had the motivation to finish…but I really want too.
Anyone have any ideas for things you would add to your list of neglected projects? Lets share some ideas and successes. If you want to join me in this challenge I’ll post a picture of your finished project the following week. Just post a comment or shoot me an email!
Before winter break we attended Raine’s art night at her school. I love her school, and make sure I stay pretty involved. I love that it values community and the arts, and is project based. They go to great lengths to make sure that the students intermingle and support each other regardless of what age they are or what grade they belong to. Raine chose to be apart of the Samba percussion group that met several times for weeks. They preformed at art night by marching up and down the hallways in a parade drumming away, we were pretty impressed of course. This is a video of them gathered after their march in a drum circle….this really is Eugene. We start them out young.
Lime dressed up to support her sissy…
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