How Do You Eat An Elephant?

I feel - off. Something is out of step. I'm not quite right. I can't put my finger on it, but I'm off.

I have these grand aspirations. I'm going to run a half-marathon, go on a diet, quit drinking, rid myself of credit card debt, focus at work, become a great president of a charity, spay all the stray animals, create world peace and end the mortgage crisis. And those are just my goals before noon.

My aspirations (and only some of the above are true goals) are so high that they paralyze me. I am so afraid that I am not going to live up to them - and there are so many of them that I end up not living up to any of them. I find myself rooted to my couch, playing computer games, unable to do any of them. I so desperately want to get my life back on track that I want to do it all in one fell swoop.

The problem is that I am recreating my entire life. From scratch. And I can't do it all at once.

So, here is my plan. Take one thing. Focus on it for three weeks (as I have often said it takes three weeks to create a habit). Do the best I can on the other things but make one thing priority. Then move to the next.

Take care, dear readers. I'll be eating this elephant one bite at a time.