It must be that thing where you don't see pregnant ladies and babies in prams until you are pregnant yourself.
Lately, with this whole "boys going to school, I failed at homeschool" thing happening in my head I have come across these two posts about goals and action.
http://inspiredtoaction.com/2013/01/the-1-person-you-need-to-unfriend-in-2013/
and
http://www.raptitude.com/2011/05/procrastination-is-not-laziness/
I think I may getting some idea of why I feel I failed at homeschooling. This is going to be an intense year mentally. I can just tell!
Best wishes
Jen
I really enjoyed those articles Jen. I'm also a procrastinator, and have used some of those strategies to get by.
ReplyDeletePerfectionism is such a curse, isn't it. Sometimes my brain is telling me, 'If you can't do this perfectly, then don't even start it.'
One of the most efficient women I know is terribly slapdash, but she gets through an enormous amount, because she just does it, and doesn't care if it's not perfect. I am working on letting myself not do things perfectly.
Jo, I sort of had this crazy idea. If I like to be graded and want to aim for perfect all the time then why don't I make my own type of report card. I have put my top 5 items on it. I was happy at school with an 80% mark so I could just aim for that over a week's tracking and give myself a report card at the end of the week.
ReplyDeleteI just think the whole gritting your teeth to change your way of thinking could be a bit hard. Why not just work with my need for "grading/kudos/'perfection'" and create my own system of "grading"? lol
Best wishes
Jen