Five Hundred Days

I have planned my day, every day, for 500 days.

Without. Missing. A. Single. Day.

It’s not hard to do. Sometimes I plan the night before. Sometimes I plan in the morning after a walk or going to the gym. Sometimes the morning is busy and I don’t plan the day until lunchtime.

Once, when I took my four kids on a four day road trip, I planned out each day of the trip before leaving, because I knew how easy it would be to miss a day while traveling.

Planning all four days of the trip took less than half an hour. And it was so easy to relax and enjoy the trip, knowing I could always look back at my plan to make sure I didn’t forget anything.

Trust me, with four kids, it’s easy to forget things.

You may have heard the cliché “If you fail to plan, then you are planning to fail.”

I will have more thoughts on that soon, but for now accept my alternate formulation: “If you forget to plan, you are planning to forget.”

So just do it.

What’s stopping you?