7 Days to Go

Today is day 2 of my countdown, with 7 days to go. I'm getting so many ideas, I just want to jump in with both feet. I know I need these days to prepare my game plan, so to speak. The two things I want to prepare myself with are understanding and addressing both my greatest strengths and my biggest obstacles. Why am I blogging about this? I know in my heart, just by looking around at society, that, while there are a select few who really do have it all together (or seem to), the vast majority of us appear to just be treading water in life. I am one of these people, and if you're reading this, you probably are, too. In "putting myself out there", I hope I am helping someone. I am also holding myself accountable by posting daily. It's one of my goals.

It is ironic that both my strengths and obstacles stem from my way of thinking. I believe my greatest strength is my creativity. I constantly dream up new, exciting ways of doing things. My biggest obstacle is my own sabotage of my dreams. I don't stick with anything. I don't even try to put my creativity into action anymore because I just know I won't follow through.

While I don't think we can blame the past for our present decisions, I do believe that we can look to the past to understand what brought us to who we are today. This is why I have decided ahead of time to try to understand and address the behaviors I have defaulted to all my life. If I can get my brain around the reasons for those actions, I may find the answers I need to see a huge change in my future.

I know the first thing I need to do is to write down everything I want to do. I've always remembered a saying I heard a long time ago: "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time". I have seven days to get myself together, so to speak, so I will take the first bite and really decide what it is I want to do. After that becomes clear, I will figure out how to organize it all and create a plan. Some other great sayings are: "Fail to plan - plan to fail", or "Plan your work - work your plan". It seems so simple, right? The hard part is in the doing (that's my saying!)

A few people think this is too great an undertaking. I guess we'll all find out if they're right. It seems to me that committing to do "the right thing" in all the areas of life possible is a good jumping off place. It's a total inner makeover.

Tomorrow I should be able to write more. The broadband internet installer is here and, wow, he's really working late, so...

Until tomorrow~~~Elizabeth