September's Habit: Eat a Frog First Thing in the Morning

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”  ~Mark Twain

So that's what I'm going to do.  I'm not going to sit around staring at the frog, dreading eating it, wondering if I can put such an odious task off.  First thing in the morning, I'm going to buckle down and EAT THAT FROG!

Of course, I mean this in the Brian Tracy sense of the word.  Where 'frog' means my 'biggest, most important task of the day'.  The task I am most likely to put off and worry about all day= Frog.  Brian wrote a book called Eat That Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time.  

After I am done journaling each morning, during which time I expect to identify my biggest and ugliest frog, I will promptly eat it.  I've decided that previously created habits will not fall into this category.  I.e, working out is not up as a contender for biggest frog.

So there you have it folks!

P.S.  By pressing the 'Publish' button, I will have eaten my frog today!  Woot.

August's End: One with Gaia

I heard a silly little actress refer to Earth as Gaia the other day and thought I would make fun of her in my post title.

Anyway, I found it pretty easy to go outside for 15 minutes a day this month.  A week-long house boating trip and a long weekend stay at family camp helped.  Some of my other habits helped too.  When I exercised outside and journaled outside, I got to count that time.  It is going to get more difficult once winter comes.  Maybe I will have to buy some snowshoes....

My other habits have been suffering.  I won't go into it, because I believe in starting new everyday.  I did all my habits yesterday, so those missed days this last month don't count!