A purpose for each day.

I'm a bit of an all or nothing kind of person.  I realise that not everyone else works this way; it has it's unique set of challenges. I've just been project managing the refurbishment of the Princess Theatre which over the past month has demanded most waking hours and nearly every day, and I have loved every moment of it.  Now the project has come to an end and I have moved from high involvement, high motivation to, well, nothing much.  It highlights that for me, it's really important to have a reason to get up each morning and to define the purpose for my day.  If I can do that then I find that come the end of the day, I have a sense of satisfaction, I can reflect on what I have learned for the day (sometimes that might even be that I didn't do something very well and could try better next time) and I can reset the program for the following day. 

I started the Princess Project with an actual spreadsheet plan of what was to happen and when, it looked great on paper.  Alas, life doesn't always go according to plan and so I had to be flexible according to what was happening each day, who turned up (or didn't) and what I had money to do (or not).  We finished on time but not in the order that I had started out with on the plan. I learned to be flexible.

Actually I learned lots of things. From the painter I got encouragement about my painting skills and learned that you need a really good brush if you are going to do great "cutting in". From the tiler I learned that if you add a little detergent to water in a spray bottle and spray that on your silicone then it will come off cleanly instead of leaving that annoying smear that ends up getting mould under it.
From the carpenter I learned that, well let's just say I learned that I should leave carpentry to the experts! Most of all though I learned from my friend the Big E, that a willing heart and a cooperative spirit make working together a joyful thing.  I am thankful that he was on my team with his strong arms and shoulders to lift, pull, and carry all the stuff that was just too much for me.
So today I have purposed to write again since I have had no time to do that during the project.  Jodi Picoult wrote "You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page." In other words, you have to start somewhere. Who knows, today's writing might just give me tomorrow's purpose.