Satisfaction

Yesterday was a very satisfying day.

I learned how to use a new computer program (EMail Marketing Professional).
I set up several e-mail lists to use mass e-mail capabilities.
This included both importing an email list and hand entering a bunch of contacts.
I tested the set up.
I developed an email to mail out.
And I sent it out.

I fully realize that there are a whole bunch of "I"s in those sentences as well as this sentence. My point is not to glorify the work that I did. Loralie had to do a lot of work in getting the email list together and check my test emails.

But the whole point of this is that we got something completed that took a bit of effort and we got it done at the appropriate time for what we are trying to accomplish.

And that is very satisfying.

All too often I have a bunch of not quite finished things going on and I just never get around to finishing them.

And the satisfaction of finishing a task is lost.

It takes finishing something like this to remind me of the simple joy in completing a task.

I need to do this more often.

Now I have to get those shelves finished for Ellen...