Okay, so what did you manage to do today?
Some task that had been lingering around for days, weeks, months or even years .. krhhmm, not that I would speak from the experience..
For me sometimes it is hard to start doing something. Somedays I would have the energy but certainly not the mood! Or vice versa. So it can be helpful for me to talk to someone while I do something, but for example my sis doesn't want me to do things while I am on the phone with her, she cannot hear a thing. I don't know if it is just the connection between us, because my brother nor any of my aunts have never complained of not hearing and I even asked them about it.
Also I'm getting the inspiration via what others are doing. Even from putting a video of someone doing some chore or reno in the background. Audio books, yes, but I never know what to listen, so that is a problem. If I find a good sermon, and what I need to do is easy (
like oiling the sauna etc), then I can listen to it and really focus on the sermon at he same time.
But talking to someone while I do things is really good option, and I mean via phone, because of course I give my attention to the one who is visiting me.. unless it is my brother
then I do stuff while talking to him.. or he just eats food I made for him while I do something else.
I never thought that I am the person who wants someone to be there when I do things, like my brother wants (
but I guess it does inspire me). He once was doing something for me, either plumbing or electrical work and I was just standing there next to him while he explained by mumbling to me what he was doing. So I deciced I would do something else as I was no big help to him.. As I was leaving he asked: "
Where you are going?" in a voice that said dare to leave! So I stayed.
He likes to have someone near and just even give him some tools if needed, but mostly for that he likes to tell what he is doing. And sometimes I even ask him, because I know he likes to explain things... even tho time to time I do not understand a thing he says
Also if I have someone to do things with me, it does not feel like such a huge task, like painting the house, doing that alone would feel like it never ends..
So, what I finally managed to do.. after a week of nightshifts, which made me feel not alive at all and it was super hard to start doing anything. But finally I managed to to this I have been putting off for at least a year.. Well, I kind of HAD to it at this point.
Cleaning my powder rooms water trap under the sink, the sink was almost fully clogged at this point.
It would have been an easy job (
and I would have done it earlier), unless the cabinet under my sink would not be missing few screws on one hinge, that I am still unable to install back, the screw holes are too messed up to put it back, door stayed there just by leaning to the other door. (
I so wish that the cabinet would be made of wood, but no.. and, yes I probably should ask someone to do it, I certainly do not want to buy a new cabinet because of that one door/hinge!)
I removed that one door and then it was easy to dismember all those hair monsters that lived in the water trap and pipes. And now I have only one door on my cabinet... that is my next mission ..for some day ..or year. Maybe just a curtain as a quick fix at first. So the main thing was a easy task, but the other did not get finished. And that bothers me a lot.
Starting the tasks is hard depending on different things, I may not have tools at the moment for it (
tools may be at my brothers place), nor the materials.. Or sometimes it is lack of my skills, because I may not have a idea how it is really done. Like the hinge situation on my cabinet..
For me, summer is better for my mood, or spring as it is so light so long, I usually get my inspiration to do things when it is evening, and in winter it means darkness. Which also means I am not so eager to do things..
Also when it is warmer and bright outside, my energy levels boosts up with those.
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So, it is hard to you to start the tasks? Or you can start easy and it is hard to finish them?
Or you don't face this problem at all? How, what is your super power?
What gives you the boost to do things?
Do you listen to radio, music or podcasts? Sermon maybe?
Do you do better if someone is over? Or when you are alone? While on a phone call?
If you are married, do you feel easier to do things now or back then when you lived alone? Do you prefer to do things together?
What are the factors that affect you? Time of the day, darkness etc?
Do you set up a time for some tasks?
Do you write up the things you need to do in order to get them done?
And the main question, what you managed to do today?
Imagine some company buying land next to you and making it their junk yard..
Surely not.......
where I live, Swedish is not used, so I forgot all, if I even learned anything in the first place.
But that's how it is for many people. The French-speaking Swiss also learn German at school, but if you don't use it and don't need it, you quickly lose it. And so it's not uncommon for us to communicate in English, which I actually find quite strange. 
