In the future I want to brush up my webdesign skills and get this info into a nice shiny, project portfolio built by me. For the time being this is a place for me to track my projects - future, in progress, and complete. This is a way for me to hold myself accountable and prioritize my projects so I don't plant a garden of spring vegetables in October and keep a half-built cat tree on my desk for 6 months.
The push to get this started was in part a "no shopping" challenge, but I'm taking it a slightly different direction. Like so many fellow ADHDers, I'm an impulse shopper. I have an embarrassing number of unopened packages around the house. I don't want to think about how much I've spent on things I hope to use someday. I know the pros would say "if you haven't used it recently, get rid of it", but I'm not ready to take that step. I'm not ready to give up on my project ideas. Instead my challenge is "no shopping for projects not actively happening" AND "no starting new projects until you finish the last".
That said, I am going to build in a couple of exceptions:
- This list. Not literally this the list of exceptions, but compiling all the projects is a project in itself, and frankly I don't see it ever being done.
- There are projects with temporal considerations - if I'm waiting for plants to grow a bit before putting them in my newly built planter, I don't need to finish my garden before building a cat tree. If I start building something and weather gets in the way, I don't need to twiddle my thumbs until I can work outside again.
So, Project 1 is getting this list going. A huge part of that will be a purge and clean. Going through my bedroom and figuring out where I am in projects, what they still need, and a reasonable timeline in which to complete them.
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