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I have tried to maintain a goal for this year. It is to finish things. Seeing efforts through to the end. We're nearly halfway through the year (goodness), and I figured I'd take the time to put some thoughts out on my goal.

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What is there to finish?

I have a number of projects and things I like to do, not all of which are quantifiable as separate things to be made progress on and finished. Exercise, for one, is an active maintenance thing, which cannot ever be "finished". Learning a new skill, or a new aspect of an existing skill, that can also never be finished. But still, I have a number of actually quantifiable things to count:

* Drawings

* Reading books

* Learning to play songs

* Writing on my own story ideas

* Writing my own songs

That list is ordered in roughly the order of how much stuff I have finished in each category.

Drawings are easy. I can quantify

things as "one drawing", and

Reading books is one goal I've

tangibly made progress on. I have

In the general vibe of *experiencing stories*, I've also actually managed to listen out a fiction podcast to the very end too! I had left The Magnus Archives somewhere on episode 163 a couple years back, but now I managed to pick myself up and get that also to the end, all the way to episode 200. And now I'm on a second round, having made it to episode 84 to hear it all over again. I have convinced two friends of mine to listen to it as well, and they are very interested!

Learning to play songs. It's slow

work, but it is work. I've written

Writing on my own stories... Now that's a whole different beast. And by that, I mean that my story ideas, I've envisioned them to end up as rather longer works. And two evenings of writing aren't going to bring me very far. But, they are two evenings, and two is better than zero. Nothing finished, but something started.

And finally, writing my own songs,

that is a whole thing I would

Another of my overall goals,

besides "finishing things", has

One art a day, experienced or made yourself. That is very easy, in the end.

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"Finishing things". I have finished some things, indeed. What I lack are discipline, routines, and a way to avoid the ever easy excuse of being *tired*, usually from the working life that drains so much of everyone's energy. But I can still do something.

I will go practice on the guitar some more now. I can spare 20 minutes from tonight to do that, at least.

You gotta trust the satisfaction-feeling too. If it ain't doing it for you then quitting is appropriate.

In my own life I quit many many things. But the few things that I truly felt for, I have stuck with. And it felt perfectly natural and right to go that way. And it took a long time to find those things.

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