It must have to do with my upbringing, but accomplishments are my own personal measurement of good, bad, or ugly days. I work a full time job, and come home exhausted mentally and/or physically most days, so my accomplishments on my personal time aren't much during the week. On my days off, I keep lists of the things I want or need to get done. They keep me on track; it would be so easy to just binge TV on a non-working day and rest. But I'm never happy when it happens, because I measure my days by my accomplishments!
Today was a good day for me: walked Sadie, cleaned my room, cleaned out two drawers in my bathroom and re-lined them with new contact paper along with getting rid of expired and unnecessary items as well. Then I did the same in my closet, removing clothing that I haven't worn in ages, don't need any longer. Then I moved on to Brian's room, and created a box for "to be donated" items. I also got one of the items crossed off my list, painting the board they replaced when putting on my new roof.
It's been a busy day, and mentally checking things off my TO DO list and counting accomplishments make for a good day. Which makes me feel ... better about things in general.
One of the reasons that have been motivating me to be reflective about accomplishments is that I've been having heart tests: an EKG, a treadmill test and this week, an echo cardiogram. I could 'see' my heart beating on the screen. The tech turned the volume on a few times and I could hear my own heart beating as I lay on the exam table. Techs won't tell you that things are fine, nor will they mention a problem they may have noticed. They just do the test and forward it to the doc. Now I wait for another 12 days until my appointment with him. I don't wait very well, as I get older, my patience isn't what it used to be.
Until then, I'll just keep working on my TO DO list, racking up accomplishments so that I feel good about each day!
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