I am, in my heart of hearts, a TWAC.

It’s not something I’m proud of. After a lifetime of being a TWAC, it is somewhat ingrained.

I’m trying to change.

For instance, the truck rebuild is going on way too long. I compare where I am with the amount of time this project has been going on and it is quite embarassing. I should have been done months ago.

If you compare where I am with the fact that if I had sent that motor out to be rebuilt and put it right back in, the whole process would have taken less than 4 days. That is horrifying.

So I have begun baby steps towards self-improvement. The first thing is To Do lists. I’m making a new one every day so that I get that day’s stuff out of the way. When I have it written down it is much easier to organize what order I’m going to do things in.

The second thing is that I pick one thing a day to finish on the truck. Just one thing. It doesn’t even have to be a hard thing. I just do that one thing and if there is more I can or want to do, great. That’s gravy. But if I do one thing every day, eventually I will run out of things. It’s like the old adage about how you eat an elephant. One bite at a time. I took a bite yesterday and I took a bite today and eventually there will be no bites left to take.

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