I’m a GREAT starter! Finisher? Not so much. Is anyone else afflicted with this? I can be gung-ho on something – put my energy & focus into it wholeheartedly – but if something else comes along to intrigue me, I’m off and running like a manic squirrel gathering nuts.
For example, I decided to work on my novel. I’ve always been a writer by nature, so I put all my effort into finishing a book, even paying an editor $1200 to work on it with me. When the changes proved too difficult, I decided to teach myself Spanish. I absolutely loved it! Night & day, I was studying, and it got to where I could understand it, write it, and speak it.
Then, my husband innocently told me about this word game he stumbled upon…well, that became a new obsession. I found myself feverishly playing tournaments every weekend with the sole purpose of winning each one by a landslide.
You see, I have what they call an ‘addictive personality.’ I think I inherited this from my father. He was an alcoholic. But, the thing is, my dad had willpower. He stopped drinking, and he later stopped smoking. I didn’t inherit THAT part of the gene…there is no willpower in this girl!
The only hope I have of stopping my current ‘addiction’ is when I find some other obsession to replace it…so I’m like a frog – hopping from one lily pad to the next. Suggestions?
