I came up with the idea of a personal finishing challenge last week. Was it only last week? It became clear that our upcoming trip to Europe (beginning in Italy) wasn’t going to happen, and as I laid awake one night, I decided I needed to make those weeks I was planning to be gone…
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Recounting 2019 and Moving Ahead
Recounting isn’t really my thing. I’m completely a process person, so it is only necessity that ever makes me finish things. As a younger person I made all my clothes, and I was famous in our household for deciding at the last possible moment that I needed a new outfit. I was always “hemming as…
Using the 2018 Project Planning Sheet
I got a query yesterday about getting some tips and techniques on using the 2018 Project Planners. If you are like me, doing it right, and making it pretty sometimes get in the way of the use, which is why I just made it a download. My advice, just use them, and worry about how…
My Strategy Intentions
My strategy intentions are a continuation of the post that appeared on Friday, June 9. I need to get this out of my system and into the records! It would appear that I have been setting strategy intentions while also reviewing, so let’s look at going forward, or strategy intentions. Big Strategy Intentions More fully link my marketing plan and my…
My Strategies Posts, How Was the Past Year?
This is the start of a new chapter for me, so it is a good time to look at what I’ve done and review what I had in my strategies posts before this. I think I will find that this is a good time to reframe some of my strategies, but first a review. My…
How Do Small Actions Add Up to A Thing
Small actions can add up to completing a large thing. We all know this. It is hard to think about all the small actions though. Personally, I love making lists of things, but as soon as they get too detailed, I am pretty sure to freak out. In Knitting Comfortably, Carson says we never think…
Now Self May Be The Hardest Self
Why is the Now self the hardest? It is the one that gets us into all kinds of trouble. It forgets to do things for our Future self, and often has to ignore our True self. The Now self takes all the flack and incoming from all the things in our lives that seem to…
Labor Day Signals Shift
I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling that Labor Day signals a shift. All year I’ve been saying “I can’t believe it is [fill in the blank for any month]! But Labor Day signals a mental shifting towards fall and winter and an associated slipping away of time. Labor Day is early this year–it feels…
Projects for Coping With 100 degrees
Today we are going to be coping with 100 degree temperatures in Seattle. We still don’t have proper shades, but do have a nice southern and western exposure, so we get some sun. By 10 am my studio windows are taking the full impact and it is the hottest room in the house. By noon it…
April is a Planning Month
Planning seems to be in the air here at Jill Wolcott Knits. Tara Swiger suggests we plan every month, but I have not been really good at it. This April I have not only generally planned April, but I have made a plan for the next three months (quarter 2). On Wednesday evening as I left…
Why Good Friday?
Why Good Friday? Because it launches several things for me! I’m vaguely aware of the Judeo-Christian celebrations going on, but this year I am not participating. In fact, we are having our St. Patrick’s corned beef for our Easter Dinner. For me every Friday is Good Friday. It means I have gotten through a work…
One-Day-At-A-Time To Finish
One-Day-At-A-Time: Break It Into Achievable Bits One-Day-At-A-Time is so hard. Seriously, sometimes it just seems things will never end. Other times, it is done far sooner than I anticipate. It is, perhaps, surprising that I came to this realization just this week: I always underestimate how long things will take if they are things I…
