Habit: Skipping weekends

I should just exclude weekends from this "post every day!" plan. My weekends are too full; it is impossible.  So... that's settled.

For daily tasks, I'm finding igoogle (which I keep wanting to call igiggle) very helpful. I have a standard list of to-do items for every day, and just add on stuff that's unique to that day. 

I like the flexibility of planning each day in the morning, which is what I do. Previously I tried to plan daily tasks ahead of time, designating certain days as The Day I would, say, vacuum. It doesn't work for me. I see a long, never-ending to-do list when I do that, which causes mild hyperventilation. A shorter list, made that morning and responsive to the immediate needs of that specific day? That I can do.

This is not to say that I do no long-term planning. I do.  I want to make a comfortable home (we're finishing up remodeling that we did ourselves) so every day I have a task to further that goal.  I want to make better habits and use this space as a way to facilitate that, so a constant item on my to-do list is "blog". Etc.

I put out some goals last week, such as taking vitamins and finishing projects. I made progress on the projects, I'm happy to say, and today I've chosen one more to finish up; it would also meet the goal of making a comfortable home, so ... yay. Vitamins? Not been good. But new week, new chance to make a habit, right?

This is also the last week of my twenties. It's put me in a reflective mood, which I normally find insufferably boring but which fits this week. I used to think I needed to push myself all the time, and I did, and it worked in that I accomplished a lot but didn't work in that I was miserable and constantly felt like I was running just to keep up. I've learned (and am still learning) to go easy on myself, to give myself a break sometimes. And funnily enough, it's this attitude that has resulted in more progress. And you know, I feel pretty good.