Way back on January 1st, I set out to acquire (6) new habits before the ball dropped on 2011.  Adopting (1) new habit every (2) months just might do the trick.  Broke out of the gate riding a daily writing habit.  Of the 59 days in January + February, I wrote….59 of them. 

As our calendars flipped to March yesterday morning, it was time once again to toss a new habit into the mix.  Consulting my original list, discovered March + April = daily exercise habit.

I have a dilemma.  The thing is, 9 days ago we picked up a foster dog at the airport.  He stuck.  Here’s what makes this relevant.  Aside from the very first day home, Otter refuses to relieve himself in our yard. 

He insists on walking the city in search of the perfect (i.e. recently peed upon by someone else) place.  Otter will thoughtfully consider many possibilities…hydrant, tree, stone wall, telephone pole, walkway of a grumpy local resident…but only a select few will be graced with his urine stream (output proportional to his affinity for the locale; always holding a bit in reserve as a better spot could be just around the corner). 

Given Otter’s peculiar propensity for peeing only in perfect places (and he’s even pickier about acceptable poop spots)…my daily exercise habit is here to stay.  Will continue walking and running mile after mile with this dog for a long time.

So back to my dilemma.  Do I proceed through March + April under the guise of getting down with a habit already acquired?  Coast through to May, when the clean eating habit might very well kick my butt?  Bump up another habit?  Or add something entirely new?

Opting for a hybrid approach.  Little bit new, little bit old.  A daily habit of focused attention to new income generation.  In part to get a jump on the debt blasting habit debuting later this year.  But also to explore the possibilities.  To imagine what could be.  To taste freedom.

Utterly Random Recent Occasions for Gratitude:

  • Last night our 3-year-old played plumber.  I was his assistant.  Daddy was…a pipe (“Pipes don’t talk Daddy.  Stay still and no talking.”)
  • According to our best girl, the dog just licked his lips in anticipation of breakfast.
  • When I retrieved last night’s dinner from Tea Garden, glimpsed a poster in the door: “May everything go perfectly…”                  
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