What's New: Cheerful & Elegant Irises!

I'm so pleased with my cheerful and elegant irises - descendants of only 9 of these plants of Mom's that I brought with me when I moved here to this location.

This summer especially they have been wonderfully LOVELY! So I thought I might share them with you here by a couple of photos so you can enjoy them also.

Unfortunately, the flowers have died by now, though they lasted more than a full week.

However, I have found since then, six green pods on the plants which - research shows are full of seeds. So I'm hoping to share them with others. It may take longer to raise them from seeds than from a transplanted iris, but this should make it easier to share the seeds by mail to places more far away from me here.

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Juggling Your Projects

I think I discovered a way to juggle projects on Sunday night when I was listing all the ones I really want to get done, but they can't all be squeezed into each day.

Then I remembered that I have long ago assigned certain projects to certain days of the week and certain times of those days. I try to leave a bit of free time between the projects, but if they have a good time slot, and I can focus on them during that time, I will feel like I've accomplished something worthwhile in that time, and can go to bed at the end of the knowing that I made some progress on certain projects.

This doesn't cram one project through a whole week or two, while your conscience keeps reminding you of another project or two you should be working on as well. (That's where frustration creeps in!)

If I plot to work on just 1-3 wee little projects after my devotional time, I clear the coast in a few days, and have time for new wee little projects.

If we plot to work on a bigger project in the evening when we have more time to focus and make real progress, we will feel successful in at least one area.

So assign the biggest projects to one or two evenings, and see some good progress on them.

In the same sense save the afternoons for the medium-sized projects, but knowing that you may have one finished in just one or two-three days, will give you a sense of success.

Of course, crises arise and we must shove our planned project aside, to take care of the immediate need.

If we chart our progress on a calendar page - it will cheer us up remarkably whenever we can check off a project.

One more tip: make a list of all the projects - even the ones that don't get a block of time assigned. Clip this list to your calendar so that when you finish a project, you can quickly pick another to do in that block of time.

Check off cross-out the ones that are done, as that will give you a great sense of making fine progress!

Then at the end of the month do crow (privately if you prefer), over the number of projects you got all done and polished off or submitted, or whatever needed to be done.

Maybe it is time to make a NEW list of Projects!?

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