What Am I Going to Do This Week?

 It’s Sunday night.  I just finished watching HGTV’s “Design Star.”  Antonio Ballatore won.  I was hoping that he would.  On the surface, the outcome of the contest really doesn’t seem to be something that will alter the course of human history, but…you know…you never know!

It doesn’t take a major event to change things on a massive scale.  It’s quite possible that the very small can alter the very large.

That is why I sit down every Sunday night and write.  Writing on Sunday opens me up to the coming week.  It begins a routine that will continue into the new week.  It honors a commitment that I will keep each night of the new week.  It is the way that I ask myself, “What am I going to do this week.?”

Routines and habits are some of the ways we organize our lives.  I used to think of words like those as “four letter words.”  I was too cool, too unpredictable to fall into those traps.  It takes time and some experience to realize that routines and habits are simply mechanisms of behavior.  They are tools we can use, once we are conscious of them.  They can be leveraged to our advantage.  They can help us modify our own behavior to help us move our lives in a direction that aligns more closely with our core values.  There are others.

For me, something simple like writing on a Sunday night helps create a sense of momentum that moves me into the new week.  I’ve pretty much mastered the art of preparing for the coming week.  Now, I just to start answering that question I posed earlier: “What am I going to do this week?”  

Time to move from day-to-day into something just a little bit bigger.

One step at a time.