“Are you a starter or a finisher?” he asked.<\/p>\n
No hesitation. I’m a starter. I love to start a new project. As a teenager, when I used to sew a lot, I always had several projects going on at once; I’d wear dresses to school that were still pinned together in places because I couldn’t wait to finish them. I worked on the same patchwork quilt for ten years. I did get the top pieced together, but had just begun the actual quilting. That didn’t stop me from using though. I wore it out before I ever finished it.<\/p>\n
As long as I’ve been doing dishes, I’ve found it difficult to wash all of them. I’ll get a sinkful done, maybe, two. But then there’s always a pot or two that I think is best left to soak. The dishes are never done. In fact, the next day more dishes have appeared next to the unwashed pots.<\/p>\n
\nI can never seem to complete anything. In fact, I almost intentionally leave things a little undone – one dirty dish, the tools not put away, the project never quite finished. Perhaps if I finish something, that is a little death. — April 5, 1986<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I call this phenomenon “The Sourdough Principle”. Whenever you leave a bit of a task undone, the leftover bits expand. Often you’re left with the same problem or worse.<\/p>\n