An easy win for the day

(2-minute read time) 

It was April 10th.  Five days left before taxes were due.  

I’d never been that close to the deadline.  Historically, I’d always done my taxes as soon as I could.  In fact, I used to get impatient waiting for all the documentation to come in the mail.  

But not that year.  That year, I put it off.  And then put it off some more.  And a bit more after that.    

Each time I avoided my taxes there was angst.  There was angst in doing them AND in avoiding them.

Doing the taxes meant facing some fears.  Not doing them meant having to find some justifiable excuse for doing them “later” (which I was pretty good at).   

The goal was to get the taxes done as painlessly as possible.  

I  made obtaining my goal so much harder than it needed to be.   

I did some math and figured if I had given just 15 minutes a day to facing my tax fears, I would have submitted them weeks earlier.  I would have been done with the stress. And, I would’ve had some money back more quickly (yes after all that, I ended up with a refund!)   

A client recently shared this with me.  It’s not new, I just love the way he said it:  

“Good decades are made up of good years, good years are the results of good months, weeks, days, hours and minutes…”

Success is built. It’s the result of a series of small decisions.  It’s a compilation of many small wins (and a bunch of failures too).  

You get to vote for what the future looks like with your choices, your actions right now.  The actions you choose today matter.   They compound, like interest.   

So, today, regardless of where you are on your journey with your goals, I encourage you to find an easy win.  Today, on this very day, what’s some small way you can contribute to the future you really want to have?   

Maybe it’s spending 15 minutes on your goal to get your taxes done.  Even when you’d rather zip line over gator infested waters.   

Maybe it’s ordering the salad instead. Maybe it’s setting the alarm 15 minutes earlier. Maybe it’s dinner at the table. Maybe it’s smiling in the mirror.

Simply make some easy, completely doable decisions for yourself today.  Collect lots of small wins.

Your future self will thank you.  

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