I’m smart enough to spot this situation but not yet good enough to address it.
I’m at a decision point now. I have an old car, a house purchase, a salsa teaching business, and a dream of latin drum workshops all competing for my focus. I keep
- deciding to sell the car, then accidentally buying bits for it online.
- finding estate agents’ letters unopened a month after receipt
- changing my mind about whether to go to two or even three salsa classes a week
- pulling back from buying more percussion cos I have nowhere to play it, yet discussing the “oldyorikan all-stars” with various potential members.
Gotta resolve some of those before too much more time passes.
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Decisions decisions! This is what I’d do:
a) put the car up for sale, which I thought was what you decided last night.
b) try and get into the habit of opening mail as you get it, don’t have to do anything about ti, but at least you ‘d be aware of any interesting content.
c/d) these are linked, more classes would bring in a bit more money which you culd put towards buying a house, but no time for playing; the group idea would be good because you really enjoy playing and it would be fun to play with others. you don’t need to buy other instruments, not to begin with anyway.
One thing that annoys me about commenting on your blog is that I can’t see half the box I’m writting in, so can’t check whether I’m making sense or not!
that’s really weird. I was about to post a comment to the effect
‘yay! I can see everything now’ because I could see the whole of the
comments box. But as soon as I started typing, the edge of the
box disappeared again!
a) Selling the car would be hard. Will you wish you hadn’t? Will you go out and spend more money on another one in a year’s time? How much are you actually spending on it in time and in money? Should you play with it until it needs its next major attention, then sell it? I can’t really talk - I have a Mini pickup which I’m not really managing to do much with, but refuse to sell!
b) If you’re really going for the house buying thing, throw yourself into it and ignore all the other things. It doesn’t _actually_ take that long to get it all sorted. Keep up your salsa commitments, but don’t add any more. Definitely don’t start a band.
Is the problem that you’re not happy with what you’re doing and always want more/different. Was there a time not too long ago when exactly what you have now is what you wanted? Did you think… “Wouldn’t it be lovely to be living in a house with low rent, a lovely girlfriend, a toy car to play with in the sunshine and lots of social dancing and a little bit of worky dancing to earn a few extra quid.”? If so, then be here now :) If not, make a plan and move on - but you’ll have to sacrifice some of your current stuff to add new stuff.
Do you need the car?
Once you’ve bought the house, can you relax and not worry you can afford it?
I dont know about the other stuff;-)
well, without the car, I don’t need a garage, so that opens up more places I could buy, and means I’ll buy when I’m good and ready.
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