When things get tough...

When Ayla first arrived I had asked her if she wanted to scrapbook the month of August while she was here. She had said yes, so off we went to spend about $100 on scrapbook stuff. Well, lately she has not been scrapbooking, so I asked her about it. It seems she suffers from the same challenge I do - when you get behind and the job seems to be this huge project of mammoth proportions, the Lapierre procrastination skills kick in and become very well utilized. I told her that when a job gets to bee too big and you don;t feel like doing it anymore, ask for help. I am 34 and just learning this skill. I am amazed it was never taught to me when I was young. As I look at this perspective today and all the opportunity I would have had to practice it in school, I am amazed that my procrastination was never called out. That not finishing the work was bad, but isn't not asking for help a worse "crime"? I think back to this dumb project we had to do where we had to draw our neighbourhood map, the streets, bus stops, points of interest, stores, etc. I had done all this very well, the project was interesting, but after doing all this, the teacher then asked us to color it. Color it? WTF? Why would we bother doing that? So of course, I didn't do it. I was sick the day we had to hand it in. Terrible flu. Now, this was Grade 5, so by that time, you would think that someone would have caught onto my pattern of loosing interest after the initial part of the project AND procrastinating or not doing the work if I saw little value OR if the project seemed to be too long and hard. I wish someone had taught me the skills of negotiating down and asking for help with I was 10. It would have made my working life SO much easier!