I have learned so much trivia as I scrolled social media. And it has been so easy to do it because I have nothing to do. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I have plenty of goals that I want to achieve, but I haven’t actually created any plans for how I would achieve them. Hence why there is nothing for me to do. My goals are just plots on an aspirational map that is pretty to look at. I mean it would be nice to get to some place like “peak health and fitness” one day, but I’ve never planned out the trip. I don’t know how I would get there. So I just have the picture up and think, “Maybe one day.”
Lack of goals is not my issue. My issue lies in lack of planning. It is time for me to finally commit to making the dreaded to-do list.
I watched a video where the speaker said something along the lines of success is planned but failure is an accident. If I want to finally reach my goal destinations, I have to start plotting a course to get there. And that includes creating a daily to-do list. For me, I know that I won’t get anything done on my to-do list if it isn’t written down. So that is what I am committing to. 30 days of to-do lists.
Even as I wrote that out, I wanted to edit it and make it smaller. “I mean, does it need to be 30 days? What exactly is a to-do list anyway? And are you sure this is the best time to do this?”
I cannot, for the life of me, nail down when I became so resistant to the idea of a to-do list. And if you have been reading this blog for some time, you will know I have written about this problem before. It is not new. What is new is my resolve to do something about it.
I know that it is going to be uncomfortable to write this out, because it makes things real. It creates a list that I can compare efforts against. It creates a standard for me that I might not meet. It can feel like all of that planning could lead me closer to failure instead of success.
Well, that’s not a problem, because my only goal is to get the list written. That’s it. 30 days of writing a to-do list. My focus is on creating the habit and we’ll take it from there.
I’m perfectly fine with not getting everything done on my to-do list in a single day, but I want to make sure I have one in the first place.
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