Growing up I was always told to finish what you start. I hated that! Sometimes I just wanted to color the bunny and not the grass or trees. As I got older, some books took me forever to get through because I didn’t like them. But I felt like I had to finish them.
Now I’m totally a rebel about it. If it doesn’t catch my interest in the first couple of chapters, I bail. Same for a movie. After about a ½ hour, sayonara! I can’t tell you how many projects I’ve have started that aren’t finished. Turns out, it’s OK!!
The other thing I was told when I was young was to stop daydreaming so much! I’m still a daydreamer though. And look! Turns out that’s OK too!! It’s a happy Monday!
The rewards of daydreaming;
“These rewards include self- awareness, creative incubation, improvisation and evaluation, memory consolidation, autobiographical planning, goal driven thought, future planning, retrieval of deeply personal memories, reflective consideration of the meaning of events and experiences, simulating the perspective of another person, evaluating the implications of self and others’ emotional reactions, moral reasoning, and reflective compassion... From this personal perspective, it is much easier to understand why people are drawn to mind wandering and willing to invest nearly 50 percent of their waking hours engaged in it”
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