On Sun, 30 May 2010 02:47:03 -0400, "Bill"
wrote the following:

The hardest part of getting work done has to be Starting! --while I was
tidying-up I figured maybe there might be one person who needed to hear
that---mostly I was just listening to myself think.

I have also done pretty well by *making lists* of steps and being content to
just "make progress" and "chip-away" towards a step (.e.g. if I can't move
"everything" from one side of the garage to the other, maybe I can start by
moving just a few items). It's too easy to be "over-whelmed" by a task and
not make any progress--I have found the list strategy I described powerful.
Maybe because making a list, or refining one, require that one start
thinking about it. As it were, I ended up noticing maple trees growing out
of my eave troughs, so the rest of the evening was "wasted"-- but things
happen. Some progress is better than none!

I think it's interesting how well that software engineering principles lend
themselves to WW! I think that SketchUp does do, but that's a subject for
another thread (I'm currently chipping away at "The Missing Manual").

I got my copy last week (or so?) but haven't had a chance to pop the
cover and read it yet. How do you like it so far?

--
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of
folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief,
and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
-- Ann Radcliffe