I mentioned in yesterday’s blog that I messed up my A-Level Design Technology Project.
I went in to school on the Monday after the Easter holiday and was surprised when the teacher asked us all for our final projects.
I thought we’d got a couple more weeks and still had quite a bit to do.
Around the same time (possibly the following week) I was driving over the cattle grid on the way out of the farm and glanced back in the mirror.
My dog was lying on the cattle grid.
I jumped out and it was immediately clear what had happened.
She’d been chasing me out, as she sometimes did with cars, and tripped on the cattle grid and rolled under the wheels.
It wasn’t pretty.
We buried her in the garden that same day and, as you’d expect, I was devastated.
Bad week to be Jon.
Anyway, returning to my DT project.
The teacher said it had to be in at the end of that day.
I knew immediately there was too much that still needed doing to produce it to the quality that I would have liked.
I hadn’t purchased all the bits and some welding and other bits of manufacturing still needed doing as well as finishing writing it up.
So I had a couple of choices at that point.
1. Head straight home do what I could and get it in for the end of the day
2. “Write it off” and leave it
I obviously did the first one.
Now, I know this is a more extreme circumstance, but I’m sure you’ve already realised the parallel.
Writing off time periods never really makes any sense when we think about it.
A “write-off” occurs when the cost of returning something to a certain standard is greater than the value will then have.
This can never really apply to a timeframe, no matter what we tell ourselves.
If things haven’t gone as desired in an earlier part of the time frame, then continuing in that behaviour for the remainder of it makes less than no sense.
And doing the exact opposite makes more sense.
Doing what we can under the circumstances.
Sure, if I could have gone back in time and approached that project differently, I would have.
In the same way we might think we could or should have made different food and drink decisions.
But that ain’t going to happen.
We can just recognise that there is no such thing as “writing off” time periods……
That purposefully getting an even worse result makes no sense……
And just do the best (or maybe just reasonable enough) with what’s in front of us.
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Jon ‘Still got into my first choice Uni, despite being 2 UCAS points short’ Hall
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