I’m pulling for you, Shaunta!

I’m stuck lately, too. But I realized a while ago that setting Big Hairy Audacious goals doesn’t help me to do the daily naked mole rat goals that will help to achieve them.

For example, I learned to swim nearly ten years ago, when I was forty years old.

‘And, like you, I have a swimming goal. A Big Hairy One. Made the promise to myself in November. Despite not having been in a pool for a year.

The swim is In July.

And I still haven’t been in the pool.

The truth is that it is cold in Chicago and I know that I’ve lost not only swimming endurance, but technique — and my technique was never good to begin with.

So I procrastinate.

And it’s hard to set an easy ten minute pool goal when so much of what I hate would STILL be part of that goal:

I hate going to the pool in the cold.

I hate getting used to the cold water.

I hate going back out into the cold after having been in the pool.

Still, I’ve gotta figure it out.

But I look forward to being your accountability partner in your exercise. You’ve already been mine in my writing and I am happy to join you in 10x100 for that.