The List.

I don't get overwhelmed easily, generally speaking.  I can manage a 15 car police perimeter with a K9 tracking a suspect without blinking an eye.  I've talked people through delivering babies on 911 calls.  I'm good in an emergency - calm, effective, and detail oriented.  Plus I make really good To Do Lists.  So when I had the I Can Be One Of The Perfect Women revelation, I thought, "No problem!  I can handle this! Bring it on!"

But then I made The List.  Of all the facets of my life that needed tending.  Appearance.  Financial.  Household Organization.  Health.  Fitness.  Pets.  Professional.  Marriage.  Relationships.  Communication.  Education.  And then I started detailing all the tasks within each category.  And then my palms got sweaty, my heart started pounding, and my vision got blurry.  I had to dash to Starbucks and buy a triple shot nonfat peppermint white mocha to stave off my panic attack (#4 on the Health list: stop buying Starbucks).

I was tempted to crawl back into my comfy lounge pants and sweatshirt, scrape my hair into a ponytail and hide out under my down comforter.  And maybe emerge only to watch The Bachelorette.  Clearly, I needed help.  This List was beyond my capabilities as a List Maker.  And if I couldn't even write the dang list, how would I ever complete the tasks on it?

Enter The Life and Goal Organizer from www.getorganizedwizard.com.  In a brilliant stroke of luck, I happened upon this site while researching life organization.  It's made up of interactive .pdf lists for every element of one's life.  I was immediately enamored.  I can detail specific goals within a life category, how I'll accomplish them, obstacles I may face and how I'll conquer them, rewards, stressors, energizers, you name it.  

A very smart quiz at the beginning of the program had me rating all the life categories in order of importance and Health/Fitness got the top score.  In my next post I'll share some of my Health goals, strategies, and what I'm learning as I research how to better my eating and fitness habits.  For example, do you really know exactly which vitamins/nutrients you need every day and how much?  And from what foods?  Neither do I.  But I will!  And then I'll share it with you.

And I won't even be in my stretchy pants under my down comforter when I do it.  How's that for progress.