The To Don't List

I'm going to show you something today and be completely candid.

I didn't feel like writing this blog.

I just didn't have it in me.

I thought I was inspired, but apparently my motivation decided to take a nap.

Here's how the day started.

I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and when I can't sleep it usually leads to anxiety.

So I decided I was going to write a blog called Don't Tough It Out.

Here's as far as I got.

Don't Tough It Out

Here is another personal one. I suffer from insomnia from time to time and...

That was it.

Then I got distracted.

I thought I should make breakfast.

My mind told me I'd get back to the blog once I'd eaten.

While I was getting ready to cook, I noticed the stove was dirty.

That took longer to clean than I expected.

I sat back down to write because I didn't want to miss my posting window.

Instead, I checked on the app I'd been working on yesterday.

Then I remembered I'd been putting off cancelling a few subscriptions.

So I did that.

It wasn't that I couldn't write the blog and get everything else done.

I just didn't have the motivation to write it.

I kept finding different chores to replace the one thing I should have been doing.

You can make a list of priorities.

That doesn't mean they'll happen in that order.

Before I knew it, I'd missed my posting window.

So I found something else to do.

I mopped the floor.

Then I cut open a pineapple to see if it was ripe.

It wasn't.

It had already started to rot, so I threw it out.

Another thing I'd missed the right time for.

I wanted to go back and finish the blog just to get it off my to-do list.

But the more I thought about it, the more it moved to my to don't list.

The motivation to write that blog had passed.

Just like the best time to cut the pineapple.

I still think that unfinished blog would have had something worthwhile to say about not always trying to play the hero.

Maybe I'll go back to it one day.

Maybe you'll read it in a future blog.

But as I was throwing out the pineapple, one thought kept coming back.

Consistency beats motivation every time.

I wasn't motivated to write today.

But I was determined to stay consistent.

And sometimes, that's enough.