If you want to become a better you, be aware of this moment, this hour, this day--but don't schedule it that way. And don't chart it monthly. There are those convinced the lunar cycle holds the key to their success or failure, but that just isn't so. Others look to New Years resolutions to chart their newer, better path. And long thinkers like to work out where and what they will be with five or ten year plans.
All of this is better than none of it, because it means you are shooting off questing arrows, albeit in every direction. But the real prime key to revolutionizing your life is to think of your weekly pattern. A day doesn't tell you all that much because tomorrow will be different, and a month is okay, but so much useless information that it throws you off the track.
Your week, on the other hand, is the map of your life. You can chart it, hour by hour, on a single notebook page. It takes a bit of valor, as you'll be horrified by how much time flies by without much happening. All that time you waste!
But with a little courage, you might take a closer look, and see where you might take back the life that is rightfully yours. Fifteen minutes less for lunch, spent in a brisk walk in the park while listening to Anne Tyler's Morgan's Passing on your iPod. Half a football game spent teaching your son to catch a fish. Even (gasp) an hour less sleep a day to do something momentous like write that book
you've always wanted to.
Yes, one simple but workable aid to being the you you've always imagined is to
outline your week, take a surprised look at what you're doing, and to make small, significant, but very hard choices.
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