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So, forty-six Tasks completed means fifty-five failed, doesn't it? So where's the list of those?
Well, failed they may be, but they're not discarded, or forgotten, as I'll explain shortly. But first...
What Went Wrong? I started my Mission expecting things in life to stay the way they were at the beginning... and then they didn't. Free time, that most precious commodity, stopped being unlimited within three months of starting this project as I found sustained gainful employment - which has gone a loooong way to financing much of what has followed - and then last year, I moved house, and my whole world got turned upside-down. I still haven't properly finished unpacking, hindered substantially by the wait for the roof-work to be carried out, and the actual work itself (and subsequent leaks), meaning there was absolutely NO CHANCE of completing Task 53 - Deal with my overspill of crap to begin with...
These may sound like lame excuses, but the truth is the truth, and there it is.
So What Now...? I had considered starting a new list, New Year's 2013, but I couldn't even begin to think up a full list, even including the failed Tasks from List 2010-12. I already knew I wouldn't have the time to spare on another project this big, but the whole thing felt... unfinished. That's why I decided to give myself a "Gap Year".
"Gap Year"...? Starting today, I given myself one year to try and catch up - "fill in the gaps". I don't expect to complete all the outstanding tasks from the original Mission, but I'm prepared to give at least some of them another try. A fresh start will, I hope, give me fresh focus - the new/old list is coming VERY soon... and with no "penalty clause", as one of the first objectives will be to pay off the ones I incurred with all the failed or uncompleted Tasks.
The future begins... NOW.
Well, failed they may be, but they're not discarded, or forgotten, as I'll explain shortly. But first...
What Went Wrong? I started my Mission expecting things in life to stay the way they were at the beginning... and then they didn't. Free time, that most precious commodity, stopped being unlimited within three months of starting this project as I found sustained gainful employment - which has gone a loooong way to financing much of what has followed - and then last year, I moved house, and my whole world got turned upside-down. I still haven't properly finished unpacking, hindered substantially by the wait for the roof-work to be carried out, and the actual work itself (and subsequent leaks), meaning there was absolutely NO CHANCE of completing Task 53 - Deal with my overspill of crap to begin with...
These may sound like lame excuses, but the truth is the truth, and there it is.
So What Now...? I had considered starting a new list, New Year's 2013, but I couldn't even begin to think up a full list, even including the failed Tasks from List 2010-12. I already knew I wouldn't have the time to spare on another project this big, but the whole thing felt... unfinished. That's why I decided to give myself a "Gap Year".
"Gap Year"...? Starting today, I given myself one year to try and catch up - "fill in the gaps". I don't expect to complete all the outstanding tasks from the original Mission, but I'm prepared to give at least some of them another try. A fresh start will, I hope, give me fresh focus - the new/old list is coming VERY soon... and with no "penalty clause", as one of the first objectives will be to pay off the ones I incurred with all the failed or uncompleted Tasks.
The future begins... NOW.
