Thursday, January 16, 2014

Small Success Thursday

Way back in October, I heard about something new on CatholicMom.com: Small Success Thursday. As someone who has a tendency to pay more attention to all of the things I didn't get to than to the things I actually accomplished, I thought this was a great idea. Despite the fact that I'm usually an optimistic person, I nevertheless have trouble viewing small successes as a big deal.

But today was different. I finally tackled a succession of phone calls and little to-do items that I'd been avoiding for a while. None of the tasks was particularly difficult, but together, they were easy to avoid. Completing the entire list took less than 15 minutes, but the sense of relief I felt and the pleasure I took at crossing them off my list was liberating. Even better, scheduling appointments involved much less dodging of other obligations than I feared it would.

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My daughter now has appointments for her check-up and her flu shot (Yep. Behind the times. But not  focusing on that today!!) I have an appointment to get all those clothes out of my house and to the consignment shop. The catalog return that has to be dropped off at a FedEx location (which my husband found for me two weeks ago) is boxed up and sitting by the door so that I can drop it off after I drop my daughter off at basketball and before I pick up a prescription and incidentals at the drug store and the dollar store. And the final load of laundry will be out of the dryer just a few hours after we consume the dinner bubbling away in the crock pot -- hours sooner than any other night this week.

I feel ten pounds lighter, which begs the question, why did I wait so long?

Not a question to be pondered on Small Success Thursday. The bitterness of regret interferes with the sweet feel of success.


3 comments:

  1. Those are awesome triumphs over minutia. Why'd you wait so long? Because it's minutia, important but details, and you thought it would be a pain. I'm glad you got it done, but I sooooo know about putting off those annoying things that you think will take forever, like paperwork and scheduling.

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  2. Thank you, Sherry! Yes, I definitely thought it would be a pain to schedule around school commitments, sports, etc. and every time I thought to take care of it, the office was closed for the day or the weekend. Glad I'm not alone in this procrastination trap!

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  3. I love successes like that.
    We are so hard on ourselves and we just need to learn to praise the small... I figure three smalls makes one big... or something like that! ha!
    Blessings,
    Em

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