Keep moving forward

I (re)started some new habits this week:

• Committed with a friend to writing every day and posting a blog each week

• Joined Writer’s Hour with the London Writer’s Salon on Wednesday

• Started reading “The Art of Living” an interpretation of Epictetus by Sharon Lebell

• Wrote in my journal most mornings for at least 10 minutes and 

• Spent time in my gardens every day

There’s a long list of things I planned to do that I didn’t do. I could feel bad about myself for not getting everything done. But what purpose would that serve?

I made the to-do list.

I can change the timeline rather than blaming myself. 

As Sharon Lebell’s interpretation of Epictetus goes, “...it is our feelings about things that torment us rather than the things themselves…”

So I’m going to feel good about what I did do and move the rest of the to-do list to next week if I don’t get to them today. 

The point is that I did something and that I don’t get down on myself and give up. My to-do lists can motivate me and keep me on track but I don’t need to feel bad about myself if they don’t get done.

I just keep moving forward.