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Why You Should Set Your Sights on Movement, Not Perfection
It’s several days past the midpoint of the first month of this new year, and already you have just about had it with yourself. The freshly laundered smell of your clean gym clothes, untainted by a drop of sweat, is the scent of humiliation, Eau de Pathetique. Your willpower is nonexistent. Dry January has proven every bit as wet as in years past, because you don’t possess the barest semblance of follow-through. You’ve used colourful language with the kids at least five times and have been eloquent indeed as you mutter under your breath about your hatred of your job, but you haven’t committed a single word of creative writing to paper, except for that stream of unpublishable self-critical obscenities you typed out the other day. You never change, do you? All those lists, all those good intentions. Ah well…2020 is another year.
This first part is going to sound a little smug, but stick with me for the last bit of the paragraph. That actually hasn’t been me this year. At the end of last year, I purchased my 2019 Diary for Valued Action and dutifully assessed where I was and where I wanted to go, and boy, have I been sticking to it. For example, I noticed that disorganisation in the house was getting me down and causing inefficiency, so I identified ‘Order’ as one of my key values for the first few weeks of the year and knocked goal after…
