Yeah, I know, I haven’t even started that project yet. But I’m not overly worried – if I somehow managed to nearly complete my Sampler in little over a week, uploading and taking a few hundred photos in three should be a piece of cake.
A couple of months ago I ran across an article about the difference between being motivated versus being disciplined. I can’t remember if it was about exercising, dieting, or just getting anything done in general during the early days of the quarantine times, but I found it ironically… rather inspirational.
Motivation is unreliable: it comes and goes. But discipline is a habit you can develop. It seems so obvious now, but the message just hit me at the right moment, I guess.
Which is part of the reason why I am so chill about the BreyerFest stuff this year. It does bother me that a lot of the other things I’ve been wanting to get done this year have fallen by the wayside, but at least I am getting some things done, instead of picking at projects whenever I feel like it and then panicking when I realize the deadline is two days from now.
Sometimes getting stuff done now is better than getting it done perfectly never.
Anyway, end of the pep talk. Here’s a recent purchase I am rather pleased by:
It’s those loose Stablemates Riders that they offered back in September 2014. I briefly considered buying them when they were originally offered, but they sold out before I could really think about it anyway.
But since I apparently have a thing for weird Stablemates stuff in general – like my mint in box Wooden Stablemates Stable from 1976, and all those odd 2008 Target Special Run accessory sets I keep telling myself to sell, but I can’t – when I saw a lot full of these pop up on eBay, I couldn’t help myself.
One of my great unfinished projects is documenting all the various, teeny bits and pieces that come with the Stablemate Gift sets. I actually don’t think it will be that difficult, but it will be time consuming.
And time is finite, at the moment. No amount of discipline can change that.
Very cool set! As far as discipline goes though... i find it life sucking at times. That might be because I still have young kids though. Or maybe because I'm getting older? Either way, motivation is way more inspiring for me :) Good read, thank you.
ReplyDeleteHa, I tend toward “motivation” rather than “discipline”. Sometimes inspiration comes in the small hours of the night before a deadline...there’s no way to know if that same inspiration would have occurred earlier if following a consistent schedule, or if it was the last minute scramble and the adrenaline that brought it. But as I get older, it’s no longer practical to count on getting things done in one last minute rush, and I admire the notion of discipline...just not enough to cultivate any (yet).
ReplyDeleteThe riders are neat! -Except for the jockey, those loose stirrups would drive me nuts!!
While I’m writing here, I thought I’d share a recent EBay adventure. Looking at grey Appaloosa FAF’s. Found this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1950-s-Breyer-Appaloosa-Colt-PLEASE-READ-THE-DESCRIPTION/313111045789?hash=item48e6df669d:g:Z9cAAOSwnv9ezUti
The last picture seemed to show AN ADDITIONAL MOLD MARK OPPOSITE THE BREYER MOLD MARK-!
“Should I bid right now? -or would that draw attention to this auction? How much should I bid? Am I really the sort of collector who would fully appreciate such a rare and significant model?”
Then I reviewed the pictures on a larger screen...the lesson being, never shop by smartphone!!