Plan?

Hello again all you seekers of enlightenment!

Today's story is about plans. How many of you have plans right now? Plans to what you are going to eat tonight, plans for the weekend, plans to wax your back? (If your plan is the last one, I really don't want to know!)

Any-who, here is my dilemma when it comes to plans. I make plans. I have plans. I make awesome, well thought out plans.  And you know what happens? 90% of the time those plans get changed. That would have driven me to a nervous breakdown as a child. After having children of my own though, I have learned to go with the flow. Maybe too much.  I know it's too much. At this point I say, "I'm going to do xxx today", and I already know it's not going to happen. Not only am I a drama queen, but I am also the world's biggest procrastinator. It's amazing my husband puts up with me!

So, what is a person to do?  Some people swear by plans. And you better run if you mess with those plans. Others fly totally by the seat of their pants and scoff at the idea of regulating their life. You might be one of these people. And if it works for you, great! Keep doing it. However, if you are like me, you might be having trouble finding that happy medium.

So what to do? What to do?!  Personally I'm going with baby steps. Really small baby steps. I am going to pick one thing this week I want to change. And by golly that is what I am going to do! Just that one little thing.  Then next week, if I've got that down pat I'll add something new. And so on and so forth. I plan on applying this to my exercise routine as well as my regular life. Right now I have plans. Big plans for all the things I want to change in my life. But just looking at that list makes me shudder and want to run. That usually is what happens too. Well, not actually run, because that would be cool. More like hide under my covers and play possum. So, to counteract that impulse I am going to break it down into small (aka teeny-tiny) steps. It may seem like it will take forever to get to my end goal, but building good habits takes time. Slow and steady wins the race my friend.

So, on to the moral of the story. Um, not sure there really is one. However, the PLAN is to change my life. Right here, right now. Maybe today's moral should be: you can teach an old dog new tricks?

*bark* *bark* *tail wag*

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