A new start, because it�s Wednesday

The Easter long weekend makes Tuesday feel like Monday. Except this Tuesday was the last day with Tony�s parents visiting AND both of our girls at home. So now Wednesday feels like Monday. The good news is that Friday is now only 2 sleeps away! Why can�t weeks�work�like this more often?

The alarm went off before 6am this morning, because I chose to set it for that time. Circa 1998 me would be horrified at that concept. But my morning walk was rewarded with the most beautiful pink sky sunrise and a feeling that everything was fresh, new, unblemished. The day started, full of possibilities and choices and events and actions and reactions and emotions and �. nothing. For 40mins, just nothing. Nothing but me and the pink sky.

So today I�m making better choices. I�m doing the �important but not urgent� stuff. I�m ignoring my phone (well, the internet on my phone to be exact). I didn�t check Facebook until I was at my desk at 11am and I haven�t touched Candy Crush. I chose�green tea instead of a second coffee. Now I�m about to choose something healthy for lunch.�Because today is Wednesday, and it came as a day full of�opportunities to make choices.

Tonight I will begrudgingly choose to do the ironing, not because I�d rather just crash on the couch but because I like when my laundry looks empty.

A day filled with good choices is an exception, not a habit in my life. It�s a conscious decision today. I�m not saying that I�m usually making all bad choices, but sometimes I reason my way into something less than the best for me. Today I�m being kind to myself and I�m making great choices because of the benefits they bring, not as punishment.

Perhaps this is the mark of winners � successful people who constantly make good choices. I�m not that disciplined.

Tomorrow is Thursday. Don�t ask me yet about my choices�tomorrow. Today is a new day and I�m focussing on that.

-SCuffy

P.S. OK, tonight I chose not to do the ironing. After bedtime for the girls, dishes, looking for paperwork for the morning & moving files off my laptop, not standing at the ironing board was a much kinder choice!