Expectation setting

I was scheduled for a 3 hour zoom course of printing with dye. Ok so 3 hours is doable. What I always fail to factor in is the time for the preparation, the shopping, the sourcing of overseas products, the ordering online, the setting out, the soaking of the fabric 24 hours before, the mixing of the paste 12 hours before, and making sure I’m ready. Setting the alerts and making sure not to miss the session with time differences and all. This is a interactive class you so I have to be super ready and speedy in order to keep up, and then I become careless and my competitive side emerges trying to keep up, stay on track, finish everything. Then I fail to calculate the tidying up, the waiting for fabric to cure for 12 hours, the rinsing out of the dye, the drying and then the washing of and then the drying again. I also didn’t factor what if I had to re-do it again because my dye was too runny (which is what has happened)

Someone who is so obsessed with time management and NOT wasting time needs to realise:

i. Things take time.

ii. What’s the rush?

iii. What if it does take 36 hours more than I expect?

iv. False pressure

v. Unfulfilled expectations

vi. Disappointment at myself

vii. Feeling of failure because I didn’t get it right first time.

viii. Now I feel dissatisfied that my other work is behind schedule.

ix. Overall unrealistic, unfulfilled expectations

x. Setting myself up to FAIL not WIN.

xi. Self-jeopardise tendencies.