Will Your Choices
Bring You Long-Term Fulfillment?

This wonderful question from Debbie Ford's great book "The Right Questions" is a good one to ask yourself in the heat of the moment, when you have a choice between filing that piece of paper right now, or sticking it in a pile to handle 'later.'

Or when you are busy and don't want to take the 30 seconds it will take to put that new appointment in your planner...so you just tell yourself you'll remember to add it later in the day instead.

Or when you are tired and feel like flopping down on the couch to watch TV, even though there are dishes still to wash.

Now I'm all for giving yourself plenty of time to relax, unwind, and reconnect with yourself.

And I don't believe in perfectionism, either.

But so often what happens is that you are in the middle of working on something, and rather than finishing it, or putting it away until you're ready to work on it again, you simply leave it and move on to the next thing, especially if that next thing seems easier, more interesting, or just 'new.'

And then you're left at the end of the day with a tattered trail behind you a mile long of unfinished little (or not so little) actions to take.

Each action doesn't seem like it's that big of a deal, so you may put it off even longer...and tell yourself that you'll get caught up over the weekend. Or next month. Or when you have free time.

But you know that wonderful future you'd love to create, where you feel calm and centered, spacious and organized, effective and powerful?

That wonderful future does not happen out there in the future; that future is created by the many small, often seemingly insignificant habits, choices, and actions you take each and every day.

So the next time you catch yourself in the heat of the moment, and you have a choice of leaving something half-finished and laying all over your desk, or taking a quick minute to put it away until you're ready to work on it again, simply ask yourself:

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