Getting Unstuck….

Imagination, song, the soaring spirit.
Separate them to know them as aspects of the whole,
Join them to know the mystery of totality.
The mind, if unfocused, can become the most powerful force we know. Yet for most of us, we are lost in the vastness of our own uncharged minds.
Deng Ming~Dao

Do you ever find yourself stuck?  Hit a roadblock that you just can't seem to get past?

Every now and then it happens to me and even though it makes me crazy, it will take me forever to just get past it.  It's different than procrastinating…which I am also good at, it really is a mental block.

This summer I have had 2 things looming over me and making my brain tired.
The first has been this beautiful sweater that I know I am going to LOVE!  I have thoroughly enjoyed knitting it, but I have a complete mental block when it comes to picking up stitches to knit a sleeve.  I know, right?  It really doesn't sound like a big thing, but every time I looked at it my brain just groaned a little and then I put it back down.
I finally picked up and knit one sleeve in the car ride to the Cape and as soon as I finish this post, I am going to pick up those last darn stitches on the last sleeve.
"Determination"

The second thing that bogged me down this summer was a simple little book, "The Year of Living Danishly". The sad part is that I enjoyed a lot of this book, so much so that I wanted to know how it ended, but the endless amounts of statistics that you have to wade through made it difficult, yawn.

Now I know that people will say that there is no law that you have to finish a book (and I admit I do struggle with not finishing a book), but the truth was that I really did want to finish it.
Because this was a library loan and I had gone long over my 2 weeks, I couldn't download another book knowing that this one would disappear when I went online, so my reading stalled all.summer.long.

Seriously?  Who does this?  Me.
I made a deal with myself however, I allowed myself to just not read any of the stats and only read the interesting story line and finally finished it after 2 months..w00t!

I then downloaded the book, "Watching Edie", which I really enjoyed except for the ending and finished in 4 days..go figure.

When I am feeling stuck, I find that I just have to suck it up and make deals with myself it appears…LOL
My sweater will be finished this weekend…there, I put it in print. 😉

Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend and check back here on Monday for some information on a 
Fall Knit Along that I will be hosting!