Monday 31 December 2012

If anyone chances upon this blog, please come visit me at The Disorganised Scanner on Wordpress. For some reason blogger just does not want to work for me anymore, so I've had it and migrated over to Wordpress. Cme join me!



Saturday 29 December 2012

A Scanner? Huh?

My name is Colleen, and I'm a scanner. If you've ever read Refuse To Choose by Barbara Sher (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Refuse-Choose-Revolutionary-Program-Everything/dp/1594863032) you'll know what I'm talking about, but if not, the potted version is as follows: scanners like to do everything. We have a million and one interests, the slightest mention of something can lead us off on a tangent.
It's wonderful, but comes with problems... I often find myself frozen into inaction because I have too much choice. People seem to think I'm lazy, but in reality I just find it hard to choose which direction to go in when I'm being pulled in so many different ones all at once. As a result....my house is a tip, though I dream about owning a beautifully decorated home. My garden is perpetually half finished even though I love flowers, my allotment remains untouched and I've a dozen half finished projects and businesses in their infancy awaiting my attention every time I look upstairs.
I'm hoping this blog can be something of a mobile scanner daybook; I do have a hard bound sketchbook for all of my big plans, but that's as disorganised as the rest of my life. I like the impermanent nature of a blog, the ease of moving things around and the ability to use it anywhere I can carry my iPad. Maybe I can shame myself into looking after my house, my body and my life better too!