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Re: Strip: Extended project blues
By:Patsy
Date: 6/12/2003, 1:23 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Extended project blues (Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks)

: I've found part of the problem can be a desire to do the best job possible.
: This creates situations where you don't want to start a task because you
: aren't quite ready to do it right, or you futz with a task for a while
: trying to get it just so. This tends to drag the project out without
: providing a lot of progress to show for the time spent.

Whoo boy, does that describe me and this wedding present canoe I'm building! I look back over the building journal I'm keeping and see these huge blocks of time where nothing seemed to happen, then there's a huge leap of progress in a short time. I'm glad I haven't had a deadline and can work when the spirit moves me. When it gets to feeling like a burden, I just take a break from it until it calls me back. I think it would be a real shame to keep slogging through it and lose the joy it has to offer.

Now it may be different when I'm making MY kayak and I want to get it on the water asap. But as long as I have a boat to paddle in the meantime, I should be ok.

Patsy

Messages In This Thread

Strip: YOU DID WHAT TO YOUR GUILLEMOT!? *Pic*
Shawn Baker -- 6/11/2003, 4:29 pm
Whoa, that took some courage
Mike and Rikki -- 6/12/2003, 1:37 pm
Re: Whoa, that took some courage
Shawn Baker -- 6/12/2003, 2:17 pm
Re: Whoa, that took some courage
Mike and Rikki -- 6/12/2003, 10:15 pm
Re: Strip: YOU DID WHAT TO YOUR GUILLEMOT!?
Mike Sundman -- 6/12/2003, 9:43 am
Re: Strip: Extended project blues
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 6/12/2003, 12:58 pm
Re: Strip: Extended project blues
Mike Sundman -- 6/12/2003, 9:13 pm
Re: deck fittings
Shawn Baker -- 6/13/2003, 12:48 pm
Re: deck fittings *Pic*
Mike Sundman -- 6/13/2003, 1:08 pm
Re: Strip: Extended project blues
Patsy -- 6/12/2003, 1:23 pm
Re: Strip: WAIT JUST A MINUTE!!!!
Ben Staley -- 6/12/2003, 10:42 am
Very Good Advice. *NM*
Arko Bronaugh -- 6/12/2003, 6:33 pm
Re: Strip: WAIT JUST A MINUTE!!!!
Mike Sundman -- 6/12/2003, 11:26 am
Re: and another thing
Shawn Baker -- 6/12/2003, 1:07 pm
Re: and another thing
Charles Leach -- 6/13/2003, 11:51 am
Re: Strip: WAIT JUST A MINUTE!!!!
Shawn Baker -- 6/12/2003, 1:04 pm
Re: Strip: WAIT JUST A MINUTE!!!!
Rick Sylvia -- 6/12/2003, 2:47 pm
Re: Strip: shop space
Shawn Baker -- 6/12/2003, 3:33 pm
Re: Strip: WAIT JUST A MINUTE!!!!
Ben Staley -- 6/12/2003, 12:13 pm
Re: Strip: YOU DID WHAT TO YOUR GUILLEMOT!?
mike allen -- 6/11/2003, 7:04 pm
Re: Strip: YOU DID WHAT TO YOUR GUILLEMOT!?
Shawn Baker -- 6/12/2003, 1:13 pm
narrower yaks and ditch recesses *Pic*
mike allen -- 6/13/2003, 12:29 pm
Re: narrower yaks and ditch recesses *Pic*
Shawn Baker -- 6/13/2003, 12:47 pm
Re: Strip: YOU DID WHAT TO YOUR GUILLEMOT!?
Shawn Baker -- 6/11/2003, 7:19 pm
Uh, pardon me for noticing, but....
Malcolm Schweizer -- 6/11/2003, 4:50 pm
Re: Uh, pardon me for noticing, but....
Shawn Baker -- 6/11/2003, 6:07 pm
Glad I kept my saw hidden @ SSTIKS *NM*
Bob Kelim -- 6/11/2003, 5:43 pm