Here’s an Attraction in Action!
I took two tall step ladders, like painter’s ladders, and a small, two step – step stool to our rental house with me to attempt to put up a wallpaper border in the 12×15′ living room, around the ceiling, by myself. Mike and I have put up multiple borders together over the years and it’s always this gigantic pain it the ass. Not so much for him because he’s the one “in charge” and yelling at ME that I’m going too fast/slow/crooked/tight/kinked.. hey, where ya goin? LOL But that only happened once.
Anyway, I’m trying to get this border up and the rest of the surface stuff cleaned up so it can be rented. I listed it in the newspaper this morning so that really lit a fire under my tail to get it together.
I set up my two tall ladders on each end of one wall with the short stood in between, hoping to walk from one to another and keep this border in the air in the process. The first try, this did not happen. I made a mess of gooey glue down the wall and dropped the whole thing on my way through. _grumbles_
The second try didn’t get me any further down the wall, although I DID manage to hold on to it this time before it peeled back off the wall behind me.
Now maybe it’s because I’m a super huge dork, but in my mind I was forming a twitter/facebook update to the tune of, “Putting up a wallpaper border in a 12×15 room is NOT an easy thing to do alone!” As soon as I thought it, I heard it, and I thought… well, that’s not a very good mindset with which to approach this! Then I thought… People have DONE this before.. all by themselves… I guarantee it! I can totally do this! Then, in my mind I changed my twitter/facebook update to, “Turns out putting up a wallpaper border in a 12×15 room alone isn’t even HALF as hard as I thought it would be!!”
Then, I adjusted my ladders just a little closer together and found a tool I could use, and with my new “piece of cake” mindset, I put up the whole darn border. And the whole time, I kept thinking… JEEZ this really ISN’T even half as hard as I was trying to make it!!
So, as I stood back and looked at my handy work, I was really glad I was able to shift my thoughts and energy and breeze through something that I could have made really hard for myself! It gets easier and easier to catch myself in the act.
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