Day 364 – Deadlines
Deadlines have a way of motivating you; sometimes it offers
you the “light at the end of the tunnel” I wrote about a few days ago; sometimes
it helps you to finally do something you’ve been putting off. Either way, if it’s important to you to meet
your deadlines, they’re helpful in getting things done.
I have a couple of deadlines looming. The farther one is to have my house set up
enough to accommodate a friend who will be staying with me while he is between
homes for a few weeks. (I couldn’t help
but offer when he said he didn’t have a place lined up, though I wonder just
how good a host I could possibly be as I contemplate the disaster that is
currently my home.) I need to get the
place organized at least enough to lay down the second mattress set and make a
bed for him.
The closer deadline is the end of this blog (or at least the
current purpose of it). My 50th
birthday is the goal here – to write something for which I am grateful for each
day of my 50th year. I have
not been diligent about staying on time with it; “Life is what happens to you
while you’re making other plans,” said John Lennon several decades ago, and it
still is true. I am glad to have this
deadline coming, and a little apprehensive, too. Things aren’t quite where I had hoped they
would be after a year, though I am hardly in a place to complain. A lot of good has come this year, and a lot
of growth. I hope with time I can see a
greater change toward the positive than I see now.
So with that, I’m grateful for deadlines, and their ability
to help me accomplish what I set out to do… whenever I get around to doing
them.
Now, I have another box to unpack.
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