# Maintaining a level (aka why do I keep starting new books)

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**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [May 14, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/maintaining-a-level-aka-why-do-i-keep-starting-new-books/3934 "2018-05-14T18:22:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/maintaining-a-level-aka-why-do-i-keep-starting-new-books/3934/6 "2018-05-18T21:34:53Z")

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An idea from @bee in another thread that sounds relevant to the general problem of actually finishing things instead of always starting new things: [Beeminding crafts - #3 by bee](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-crafts/3893/3)

Specifically this bit:

> Right now my major problem with crafting is starting things and never finishing them, so I’ve got a very low rate / long term goal to finish things, with 1 finished object due per month. I can enter partially finished objects, but I can’t jump around once I enter something. So I estimate this dress I’m sewing is 80% finished, and enter a 0.8, then I’m committed to finishing it (or frogging it) before I can start counting something else… I’ve only made it through a few months, but it seems to be going well so far!

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