Day 23:       Pick Something Small Off Your Life List. 

    Start with something simple; something that can be accomplished in a month’s time.  For example, I can’t throw a national election in a month’s time (sigh).  I can’t go live in Europe within the next month or two.  I can learn to cook five decent meals.  I can do that on Saturdays and maybe one or two extra days. 

    Take a look at your life list.  Can you train for a marathon in a month?  No.  You can start training for that marathon, but that is not going to be your main focus this month.  You can’t lose thirty pounds in a month, at least in a healthy way.  Pick something that is achievable within a month’s time frame.  Why?  I won’t kid you.  If you start with something that you have a fighting chance to accomplish, won’t that give you a boost of self-confidence and make you feel like you are up to a slightly bigger challenge?  There is nothing wrong with boosting your self-confidence.  Just so long as you use that boost to try to accomplish bigger and better things. 

    Is there something not on your life list but it is tugging at either your heart or your conscience?  Is there something in your life that is making you crazy or making your feel guilty?  For me, right now, it is a garage-full of boxes that I have moved from place to place and never sorted through.  I feel like I cannot think clearly and cannot free myself up until I have gone through those boxes and gotten rid of at least one-third of the accumulated pile and I am shooting for getting rid of one-half.  Now, cleaning out the garage is not on my life list, believe me (meeting Tony Bennett is, so if any of you have a connection, I would be VERY GRATEFUL).  However, cleaning out the garage is something that I can do in one month (with some effort) and it would really unclutter my life and my brain.  So something like that is okay to choose for your first project.  Don’t make it too easy, but don’t make it impossible either.