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Default The hardest part of getting work done is

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").

Bill


 
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