Just do it, already

So Friday night, I get a text from my publisher that he likes the premise of my second book.

Hooray! Being a Sartoris Literary Group author is something that makes me want to jump up and down and squeal like the middle-school girl who lives in my psyche somewhere.

Now I just need to finish writing the second book.

It's a daunting thing, taking on a big project. I have several that are at least in my mind or farther. The Gentleman Friend and I have some going on at the house that probably will not happen until after the holidays as I don't want to tear the kitchen and upstairs bath up until then, and I have been wanting to redo the Dear Daughter's room only to repaint the walls, sew curtains and hang shelves will first involve cleaning the room to the point where the floor shows. And that is a big project.

I promised her the redo if she would clean the room first. Hasn't happened.

But here is the deal. Sometimes you look at a project and think it will take forever. And it really just takes an hour.

Or you take on a project only when you have enough time to finish it. And you never have that much time, so you never start.

The trick to finishing these things is to do a little bit at a time. I wrote the first book, "Because I Said So: Life in The Mom Zone," in lots of sittings, none of them longer than three or four hours and most about 30 minutes to an hour.

So today, I am thinking about just doing it, like the Nike ad. Just start. Just keep plugging away once you start.

That goes for the book. I still don't want to take on the DD's room, putting in new kitchen counters or fixing the upstairs shower until after Jan. 1. The holidays are chaotic and messy enough without three more projects under way.