I recently began a 45 day personal challenge, to work on 20 different things over the next 45 days.
Though I will go into it in more detail tomorrow, I am just going to take a few minutes to reflect on the process so far.
I’m only 3 days into the challenge and currently the No’s are way ahead of the YESes. What amazes me is that it took 5 days to actually sit down and put the list together, and during those 5 days the only thing that really bugged me was that I hadn’t made the list, there was hardly any thought to the actual things that I was not accomplishing. Now after only 3 days I am getting frustrated because I have to keep writing NO on my list. Today I decided that I wanted all YESes for the day, and I blew it. I didn’t optimize my day, I let things happen, and now it is almost 1:00am and I am trying to get a few more YESes in. It is amazing that an 8.5 by 11 sheet of paper with a list of things and some boxes can move me to accomplish things that have for the longest time been important to me, but for some reason I rarely pay attention to.
This sheet of paper stares at me every day now asking me “NU” are you going to put YESes or NO’s today? You had a lot of NO’s yesterday are you going to repeat that. It challenges me, makes me want to prove it wrong.
Though I have intuitively known the power of writing things down, I have often been two lazy to do so. Imagine where I would be today if I would have started my list 10 years ago.
I think I might cry.
