Two weeks ago, jake and I meant to go climbing but at 3pm on Sunday we suddenly realized it wasn’t going to work out because we still had to get big boy’s birthday cake and the sun was going to set soon.
I decided then and there that we wouldn’t do this again. I put a calendar reminder for us to leave the house by 2pm every Sunday so we could go climbing. If we decided to go Saturday that week, awesome. Or if we went Sunday morning that’s awesome too. But if we didn’t go by Sunday at 2pm, we were to leave immediately.
The goal was to make it weekly routine so it wouldn’t be a discussion each week. And this week it worked perfectly. I’ve learned that the most effective way to combat inertia is to make something into a routine. And yet I keep not doing this.
Not sure why I keep having to learn this lesson again and again but here we are.
Here’s to climbing regularly and finding ways to create routine structures for the life that I want to live vs the life inertia is making me default to.
Yes to choosing the way I spend my time. Yes to climbing more.
#yearofyes #karenikayearofyes
Leave a Reply