Hi Sue, it sounds to me that you'd like to work on more than one thing at once but you were trained to finish one thing first. Those old tapes that play in our heads are hard to change! But they CAN change! :)
I hope you find a way to let go and do things the way you really want to!! :D
I would sneak in something small for starters, and then if you get comfortable with it you can branch out.
Not daft at all! Just training and that's not easy to change.