Yet

I’ve gone a little quiet over the past month. Work got busy, I had some travel planned, and my systems weren’t strong enough to help me bolster against this….at least not yet. 

The ‘yet’ is key here. 

Adding the ‘yet’ allows me to be curious about what went wrong and treat the past as a learning opportunity rather than a matter or fact. It shifts the story I tell myself away from “You’re not good at this” to “You can get better at this if you try.” 

I’m still working on sorting out the answers, but here are some of the questions I’m going to be asking myself over the next few days: 

• What made it hard for me to stay consistent? 

• What stories was I telling myself about time? How might those stories have shaped how I prioritized tasks? 

• What, if anything, made it hard for me to start back up again? 

• What’s one thing I could do differently next time?