New Things

not repetition

I can get easily excited about new things. A new project. A new book. A new food.

Some of this is just humanity. I have hormones that drive my behavior certain ways.

What I’ve found I don’t like is repeating some things. Like, if I need to update the same spreadsheet with different numbers for 60 minutes every Friday, that’s probably going to be the absolute last thing I do on Friday. Or, maybe do it on Saturday instead.

I’m excited to create it in the first place. I’m excited to adapt it, improve it, change it. I’m excited to use it for whatever intent created it in the first place. But ask me to simply update it every Friday for a year and I’m completely over it in a month.

Where I get confused is that it’s not consistent. I can wash dishes every day. Do laundry. Brush my teeth. Shower. No problem.

But there’s something about other repeating tasks that I just don’t handle as well as I’d like.

I’ve wanted to change this about me for years. I don’t anymore. I just know this about myself and I’m okay with being this way.