It has been a long time since I did anything with origami. Two things happened 1) I became somewhat disillusioned with what I was achieving and 2) One of my stepsons recently showed me how to create a a flapping bird. Rupert made an interesting observation about the book I had chosen to learn from basically it was not the easiest set of  diagram to follow and even he (with his current knowledge) would struggle to complete the flapping bird from the book. Rupert is fairly competent and feltb that I had given myself too big a target with the Dragonfly (which he can do) and the Beetle (which he can't do). I think the beetle is probably a step too far however the dragonfly will be done.Rupert suggested that I did the flapping bird and then looked at where to go next.

I didn't plan out the steps I was going to take to work methodically to the target designs. I actually thought I would learn all of the bases and then work from there, the problem with this is that you don't get any sense of achievement when you create a base not in the way you do when you have a recognisable shape.

I should have referred to more than one book because since his comment I have found that the way diagrams are annotated to create designs are slightly different and that some of the directions are easier to follow than others.

So I need to come up with a plan to successfully achieve my goal.