Recently I visited with an old friend, a busy young professional woman. She told me that she had taken up quilting again, something she’d enjoyed years ago. I said, “I would love to craft more than I do, but it’s so hard to find the time.”
She then reminded me: “I just thought about what your mom always used to say. Work on it five or ten minutes at a time, and it will get done eventually.” Oh yes! How is it that I so often forget this! I often think that since I can’t sit down and craft for an hour, I can’t do it at all. Silly me. “Five minutes” is my new mantra!
Charity Grace 
April 15, 2009 at 5:11 pm |
Great mantra!! It should be that simple.
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September 11, 2009 at 6:01 pm |
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Rachel
April 15, 2009 at 5:17 pm |
That is so true! I recently took up quilting, and I like it because I can accomplish just a little at a time. Also, it never takes as long as I think it will!
April 16, 2009 at 12:31 pm |
I tell my kids that sometimes, in regards to cleaning their rooms. (Doesn’t work!)
April 20, 2009 at 12:03 pm |
Oh, such a good reminder!
I needed that today.
April 21, 2009 at 3:58 am |
Money was very carefully budgeted in our house when I was growing up. My mother, who developed heart trouble when I was 3, cooked two meals a day (all from scratch – no convenience food), had a clothes washer but no dryer or dishwasher, ironed everything and made almost all the dresses for me, my sister and herself, and shirts for my dad and my brother. My aunt asked her one time how she did it, and she answered that even if it took a whole week for her to sew a garment, she could still sew 52 in one year.
You’re right. Slow but steady gets the job done. The tortoise and the hare!
P.S. My mother is now 94 years old.
September 11, 2009 at 6:00 pm |
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