while you’re busy making plans, life passes you by

I’m a planner. I like to write things down, know what I’m doing and how I’m going to do it. The problem is, while I enjoy planning, it’s the following through that I’m not so good at. I reopened a big journal scrapbook that I have last night and the last time I’d written anything in there was almost two years ago. I had all these grand plans for how I was going to make all these changes in my life, and here I am, two years later, still making the same plans for how I’m going to overhaul my life. The difference is, at the moment, I’m doing it. I have no choice but to do some of it with my income about to lose a fair chunk and a number of other factors involved, but I’m going to do it, and this time, rather than writing down the plans and just putting them in a book, I’m going to follow through on them.

Growing up I was fairly athletic, well, really, I was ridiculously athletic. At age 15/16, I was doing gymnastics 12 hours a week, playing soccer during winter and doing athletics during summer. Let’s just say, my body was in great shape. These days, not so much. To be honest, the idea of doing 10 push-ups freaks me out a little. But I know that it’s time to change that. I’m not going to try and schedule physical activity into my life, I’m going to just make it a part of my life. J’s Mum has this thing she’s got us, and his sister and her boyfriend, on that is about making an effort to do more exercise for 100 consecutive days. Whether it’s as little as getting off at an earlier tram stop or walking up the stairs instead of the lift, it’s about making the effort to be more active with your life, and doing it gradually.

The most important thing that I will get out of this, is that to make a change in my habits I need to do it gradually. I can’t just expect to wake up tomorrow and be a better person, but I also can’t just give up because after a week nothing has really changed. In today’s society where I can walk to the end of my street and get a fully prepared meal in about five minutes, we’re building a generation that expect everything now, and if it doesn’t come, well then there’s no point waiting for it. I don’t want to be one of those people, but I am, and I don’t like it, so I’m going to change it.

In other news, I have technically two days left of full-time at my job before I move into my new role. There’s still a couple weeks til my replacement starts, so I’ll still be doing some of my old job stuff, but I’m excited for the next few weeks and what this year will bring, so bring it!