When is the work done?

Task 3: Make Fermented Hot Sauce

This moment in time is all we have.  

Today, the goal was to carry on from yesterday's theme of reducing or the absence of suffering. To Me, the stoics are the best example of embracing what is offered and move forward.

Simple right?  Be aware of the inciting incident and then accept what it is and make the best decision without emotion.  

I have a trait or flaw that repeats itself over and over, I am excited at the beginning of any task or endeavor but I struggle to see it through.  I love to garden, spend months growing seeds in my basement with grow lights in the window.  By the time the literal fruits of my labour are ready the passion is gone, and many rot on the vine.

Well not today, I harvested all the ghost peppers on a plant in painstakingly wintered and made a brine, jarred, and will now Lacto fermented them for 2-4 weeks and make a hot sauce.

Seems a small deal right?  Well, I have a young daughter and I put in 10 hours in the office.  I need to spend time with her, vacuum the stairs and cut the grass.  I also need to write this blog.  Well it's now 8:30 PM all of the above is done, I managed to spend a lovely 2 hours with the kid where I was wonderfully present.  Had my cold shower (while she banged at the door yelling "Da")....I made the brine earlier in the day and now the peppers are in their salty ocean and weeks from now I'll be enjoying the hot sauce of more likely gift it to a friend.

Most days I look at my task list and it's just never-ending;  I wonder would a stoic just not sleep until this work was complete, or would he let it go and try again tomorrow.   I don't know for sure, but I hope so.

As I review my first comment about this moment in time; this might be a key.  Now how do I position myself to have the most amount of freedom to choose more of my moments rather than having them dealt to Me?