The downside about being a lazy overachiever

You always feel like your behind even when clearly your not.

I always come out with these brillant easily "in my mind"acheivable goals that really don't have any effect on any real outcome. Usually they involve trying to relearn something I already know or used to master. They never involve just brushing up or catching. No they usually involve starting at the beginning again.

For example: I thought it would be a great idea to work through my pattern making text from start to finish and do ALL of the exercises in 1/4 scale in a notebook. Broken down into a few a day to keep it "manageable" This was an expanded version of what I had to have down for one of my patternmaking classes that I took a decade ago. I didn't actually DO it so I got an C when I could have easily gotten an A. I think I felt guilty.

Same thing with my shoes even though I am chugging along making approximately a pair a week and I haven't been making them all that long. I had a work stoppage due to running out of Master cement and also starting the portfolio presentation class. No shoemaking for about a week or so. Boy did I beat myself up. A week! Surely I must have given up.

Does anyone ever feel this way. I also have a partially cut out wool peacoat for the husband on haitus because its back into the 70's in LA and I just don't feel motivated.