🏔️ MY FOUR-WEEK MISSION: Conquer the Half-Done Mountain (featuring my world-class collection of PHDs — Projects Half Done) 🎓 Hello my favourite focus-friends! 👋 Confession: I hold multiple PHDs. Not the framed-on-the-wall kind. The Projects Half Done kind. 🎨 My "craft room" is a loving archive of someday-makes, stacked three deep. 🚽 My main bathroom/Laundry got a loo and some walls three years ago, and then we just... stopped. Half-renovated as a lifestyle choice. 😬 My office - well, too many books, old resources and a paper nighmare 📎The Digital Warfar on Email boxes is under control, @Judy Hamilton (what an awesome accountability buddy) and dupicate files, and old downlods - all reduced by 85% - not perfect, but better 😉 Well, the universe has spoken: real builders are arriving in 6-8 weeks. So I've given my self four weeks to get the bathroom/laundry zone builder-ready, a reduction of books/paper from the office and the craft room cleared and set so I can finally start working through the PHD list - over the NZ winter. Here's what's different this time. I'm not waiting for motivation. We all know how that movie ends. 🍿💀 𝗜'𝗺 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗢𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗦 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱. Motivation is a guest who turns up whenever it feels like it. A protocol is the furniture — it's just there, deciding things before the day gets a chance to hijack me. No 5:55am negotiation with my warm bed. No 6pm "do I really have to." The protocol already answered. I just put my feet on the floor and show up. So I've rebuilt my two Scoffolds for th enext four weeks - : ☀️ MORNING PROTOCOL — 6:00 to 7:00am Craft room. Clearing and setting the space so the PHD list can actually begin. (It's pitch dark here in the NZ winter, but the room's indoors and doesn't care 😅.) 📎MID-DAY PROTOCOL - 12.00 - 1.00 PM - Office Blitz - Books/Paper reduction of space hogging redundant "stuff and things" 🌙 EVENING PROTOCOL — 6:00 to 7:00pm Bathroom/Laundry zone. Winding down from the work day into one tangible, builder-ready win.

Day 1 Done! Biggest insight: That I am not a person who needs to be fixed. I just need to find systems that work for. me and the way my brain is wired. My open loop is: Bringing clothes, that no-one wants or that don't fit my kiddos, to the local middle school . They have a "shop" where kids can go if they need clothes, toiletries or anything else that they may not be able to afford. One word for how I feel right now: Hopeful