Confession

OK I have a confession to make. I haven't been following my checklist everyday. Even when I have followed it, I haven't followed all of it. There I said it.

I could list a million reasons. Some of them would even be quite good. Rational, sane, reasonable reasons why I haven't done what I know I should; but in the end, they would just be excuses. I can't lie, not to myself or you. I chose not to do them. I chose to let the mounting list overwhelm me. I chose to cheer everyday there was no new addition to the checklist. I chose to groan everytime there was an addition. I chose to allow my circumstances to dictate how I would live my life, and my life has suffered for it.

You know how you decide one morning to sleep in and not go to the gym; and later you feel like crap, physically, mentally, and emotionally cause ya didn't go? That's where my choices led me. I feel like crap. Life seems overwhelming. It didn't take much. A compromise here, a "too busy" there, and eventually an all out "I can't take it!" everywhere. That is where my best thinking, outside of using my TOOLS tools, has landed me. Oh, I was doing OK. I could catch up. I'd do it tommorrow!

Now I'm pushing up out of the mire, today. I'm starting over, today. I'm doing my checklist, today! When I look around me at what's fallen apart, I see in every instance where just using TOOLS would have prevented so much. Thank Heaven I noticed before it got too bad.

TOOLS is alot of work. Don't let anyone tell you differently. Most things that are worth doing are, but the consequences of not doing TOOLS is soooooo much worse. OK, deep breath in through nostrils, "I'm having a great day!"

The day IS mine!

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