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.

Comments

[Karen]

Let me know when you find the answers! In the mean time, you are a very expressive and loving dad. There is no list or program to start to make you so, you just are.

[Tony]

Feeling light-headed...moment of unconsciousness...wake up on the floor, staring at the ceiling. What's happened? the last thing I remembered was seeing some writing in a blog that I usually read that was actually date 1/10/07 rather than 10/12/07. I my gosh, it's really true. There is a current entry in this blog.

How the heck are you Bruce? What the heck have you beeen up to? Have you been down this way (SoCal in the past three months) for business at all?

Drop me an email and fill me in.

[Your LA Buddy]

Welcome back to the world of Blogs... Now I can continue my NY resolution of keeping in touch with my buddies! :)

[Derek]

wishing you the best of luck in Just doing it! You know you can too!