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So at 9:30 am I looked at my to-do list for today and I could actually check everything off.  I remembered to bring all the stuff I needed at the office, I returned stuff to Home Depot and made it to the bank.  This may seem like an everyday occurrence, and maybe for you it is but for me it’s like winning the lottery, it just doesn’t happen.  Many reasons.  Mostly I put too much into every day.  What I can I say, there are a lot things that I want to do.  But chief among them is not running errands.  But like every adult, there are just things you have to do that you don’t really want to.  I’d rather spend my time training, being with friends or sleeping and why not, it’s a whole lot more fun than returning something to Home Depot. 

 

But in my attempts to be realistic with myself and keep myself healthy, I’m also trying to manage my to-do list.  So instead of 14 things to do on Saturday and 9 on Sunday, I’m trying to evenly space things out over the course of the week or next three weeks.  I’m also trying to be a little more logical about it.  Like today.  I had to go to the Dr, and Home Depot wasn’t too far from there and the bank was around the corner.  So it didn’t take too much time out of my schedule.  Considering one of things that I took back today has been in my trunk since mid November and I have probably made 3 trips to Home Depot since then (or driven past one every Tuesday and Friday when I get my allergy shot), this is kind of a significant thing. 

 

So maybe I’m learning to manage myself a little bit better.  Maybe not.  Next up, locating my social security card.               

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