A lesson in choosing to plan

Before I went to sleep on Monday, I decided what I would do on Tuesday. It's a fairly regular habit of mine and it serves me quite well. This particular Tuesday it was interesting to see what happened.

When I woke up Tuesday morning I had a great idea for a give-away at ReclaimU. I was really excited about it and wanted to implement it immediately. What I forgot to do was to sit down with my to do list and adjust it. So now, in my mind, I had everything on my original to do list PLUS everything I needed to do to create the give-away.

Fortunately for me I had only planned on working a half day so I was able to finish the give-away and part of the other to do list. Unfortunately for me, I missed an amazingly beautiful day. It was 72 degrees and sunny, and likely the last day I'll see like that in Michigan until next May.

Because I didn't stop and take 10 minutes to choose what I would do that day I missed out on a beautiful day. And that actually wouldn't bother me if I had made the decision to work, but I didn't. I just let one thing after another pull on me and it left me a little frustrated - and a little smarter. I guess we all need periodic reminders to make choices about our lives because if we don't we may not be happy with the outcome.

Can you guess what I'm doing as soon as I finish this blog? Yup - creating my to do list for today (and keeping it light - I think I got lucky and have another nice day:)

If you'd like to check out the give-away at ReclaimU just click here.