I have a page in my planner that is two sided and gets printed out every two week. It has boxes of things I want to do on a daily
bases. I made this the first of the year
and sometimes add or subtract from it. It’s
sort of like my daily goals for the year.
It's a pretty simple list and has room to grow. Some of these boxes get checked regularly, yeah me! These could be removed
as they are now a habit but I like the feeling of checking off a box (and you list
makers know what I am saying here). If I removed them then I would feel the need to add more and I still have room for improvement with the ones that are there. Most of the boxes get checked off most days and I love how they remind and motivate me. There is the box that only gets a check once or twice a week, lots of room for improvement there. Then there is the box that haven’t seen a check mark all year. Enough was enough, today was
the day to do it. It was the first Monday of a new month so no more
excuses, just do it. The item that I chose to check off was exercise.
I have been wanting to ride my bike again but had every excuse in the
book not to.
So today I powered through the I don't want to excuses. Did I have to think about
it, no because I decided to do this yesterday and had everything ready that
I needed. I did have to do it alone, yes
as my friend who I was going to use as a crutch called to say she couldn't make it.
Was it calm with no wind? Nope
but I had a route picked out in case of this that didn't involve me riding into the
wind. Did it hurt? Not really as I took it easy and only rode 4
miles to get started. Did it feel
good to check that box off? You bet it
did.
I guess, want I really wanted to say was if that box
hadn't been there I wouldn't have felt the push to just get it done. There has been many a night when looking over the day that I realized something hadn't been done. I love having a last minute chance to finish off the day with a check.
Now on to those other boxes and getting more checks marks.