Getting Around to Goals

Lori's

Here are my summer goals, in no particular order:

1. Get a handle on WIP revisions

2. Begin those revisions

3. Declutter finished portion of basement (Paint?)

4. Read The Taming of the Shrew

5. Read a few grown-up books (maybe even a classic?)

The progress on one and two will significantly influence the progress on the rest. A friend of mine says, "Motivation doesn't exist." For a want-to-be-lazy person like myself, this is a helpful philosophy to live by. It takes a certain mysticism out of the accomplishment equation.

Once, when I was on vacation as a kid, we went to one of these souvenir shops where they sell all kinds of useless things including "Round Tuits." These were wooden coins with the words "Round Tuit," printed on them. The joke was, if you're a person who's planning on doing something "when you get around to it," well, here's one for you. No excuses now, by golly, you've got yourself a one hundred percent authentic wooden Round Tuit! I remember the elderly man who sold them getting a real kick out of explaining these valuable "coins" to the unenlightened.

I didn't find it very funny as a child, probably because there wasn't anything I was particularly trying to get around to doing. But now, I kind of wish I'd kept one of those Round Tuits. You know, just in case it would be helpful.