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reminder #452...
Jul. 12th, 2004 08:46 pm...that if I leave someone with a task and leave town, it will still be undone when I return. (or often even if I stay in town but stop micromanaging, but that at least is *sometimes* not the case. The 'leave town' failure rate is currently at 100%.)
People keep telling me I need to learn to accept help because I don't have the time or the skills to do everything myself, but given the "rewards" I'm getting for trying, why would I learn this thing? Why would I want to?
After a year and a half of accepting various people's offers to take on the project of the "getting a screen door installed in the kitchen", I'm finally giving up and retaking ownership of this myself.
You'd think that with five people in this house, *somebody* would have gotten around to doing it after they *volunteered to take the problem off my hands*. It's not like I didn't provide Very Specific Instructions each time somebody announced they were stuck.
Sheesh.
I've heard of "if you want it done right, do it yourself" but in my life it appears to be, "if you want it completed at all, do it yourself." It used to be that I said I needed to learn to delegate. My new goal is to learn to delegate much smaller things. And perhaps to find someone in my life who 1. has the time to help with things and 2. *isn't* a flake.
(No, this is not at all directed at you, housemate-who-reads-this. You live here but you're not here often enough for me to expect you to install a screen door. :)
People keep telling me I need to learn to accept help because I don't have the time or the skills to do everything myself, but given the "rewards" I'm getting for trying, why would I learn this thing? Why would I want to?
After a year and a half of accepting various people's offers to take on the project of the "getting a screen door installed in the kitchen", I'm finally giving up and retaking ownership of this myself.
You'd think that with five people in this house, *somebody* would have gotten around to doing it after they *volunteered to take the problem off my hands*. It's not like I didn't provide Very Specific Instructions each time somebody announced they were stuck.
Sheesh.
I've heard of "if you want it done right, do it yourself" but in my life it appears to be, "if you want it completed at all, do it yourself." It used to be that I said I needed to learn to delegate. My new goal is to learn to delegate much smaller things. And perhaps to find someone in my life who 1. has the time to help with things and 2. *isn't* a flake.
(No, this is not at all directed at you, housemate-who-reads-this. You live here but you're not here often enough for me to expect you to install a screen door. :)
