Do You Manage Your Day for Success?

I’m making progress on my dream to become an accomplished equestrian.

Yea!!

I’ve only had two lessons with Heather of Phoenix Farm (www.phoenixsporthorses.com) but I’m feeling really good about them.   The lessons are hard, requiring absolute focus and thought for an hour.  And, I found out last week, that my lesson does not stop simply because rain starts to pour down.

But, I was watching a figure skating competition on TV the other day (love figure skating).

I began to wonder, am I really doing all I can to accomplish my dream?

Am I managing each day for success?

My answer to myself was a resounding “NO!”

As I watched those lovely, accomplished, girls spinning and jumping around the ice, it occurred to me that they probably do not:

1. Get sucked into Farmville on Facebook.
2. Sit on the couch each night eating ice cream straight from the container.
3. Find excuses to skip exercising “just that day” (and the previous day, and the day before that,  the day before that, and most of last week).
4. Spend inordinate amounts of time thinking, considering, whining, worrying . . .  all of which takes away from actual getting-it-done time.
5. Ignore the alarm clock and get up late every single morning.

If I could start by changing  just the above 5 things, I’d be way ahead of where I am now.

Most of them are easy.  #4 may be challenging.  But, my birthday is coming up so its time to reflect, reassess and let go of a few “issues” (easier said than done – and that sounds like a whole other post).

How do you manage your day for success?  I think I’ve asked this before and some of you have talked about starting each day with meditation or stating your intentions for the day.

What else?

I find that I tend to slog through the first part of my day and then, around 4:00, look around the house, panic at all that is not done, and then run around like a crazy person, which leaves me stressed and exhausted.

Well, at least I know what’s wrong!  Now, time to set about fixing it so I can have some unstressed time to work on letting go of a few things before my birthday!

Luc Reid over at The Will Power Engine Blog in his post, Dealing With Distractions You Can’t Prevent advises:

“In responding to distractions, especially when frustration builds, it helps to have a planned response you can fall back on . . . If you experience a lot of distractions or have the sense that some could be avoided with better organization, trying jotting down a list of distractions as they occur (after all, you’re already distracted) and then reviewing it in the near future to come up with ideas for heading those distractions off. . .”

Sound good?

‘Til next week.

Danelle

(Danelle left 8 Women Dream in March of 2010 and is still working  on her dream is to become an accomplished equestrian)