Why Is It So Hard.....

...to start (or restart) anything??  Whether it's a blog, a diet, a workout regimen, a budget, a new work routine....it seems like I spend day after day fully intending to start whatever it is and then end the day thinking I will do it the next day. 

Well, I have proven to myself that having a gym membership and carrying my gym bag in the trunk of your car doesn't get you in shape.  Subscribing to Weight Watchers and buying a scale doesn't make me lose weight.  Downloading Quicken doesn't make me financially sound.  Making a list doesn't make me productive at work.  And, of course, as you all know, just having a blog doesn't make me write on a daily basis.

All of these things are just tools to help us toward a goal, but they all depend upon a "Just Do It" moment to have any impact whatsoever.  Historically, I have been able to elevate my mood by merely acquiring the tool to help start a new plan, or even by coming up with a new plan in my mind during a time when I can't possibly begin to implement it(i.e., while driving, while in a business meeting or deposition).  Sometimes I have pen and paper and I write down the plan.  Inevitably, that plan gets lost in the middle of a legal plan and is replaced by another plan a few months later.

I have long sought a permanent solution to this problem....a drug or surgery that would turn me into the kind of person who could just make a plan and follow through with it.  I haven't found such a thing, so as far as I can tell the only thing to do is to pick something and just do it.   And so, three months after my last entry, here I am.   My modest goal for each day, is to just do SOMETHING I have been intending to do.  Wish me luck.