30 Days to a Habit Change - Day 9

I'm down to the wire with the IronBaby.  I'm using the todo list to checkoff the last few things before the race.

• Adjust the cleats on shoes.
• Make potato wedges.
• Make liquid fuels.
• Calculate meter lap times in case I have to swim at a different pool.
• Triple-check race bike and tires.
• Plus a whole lot more little stuff.

Just checking off the items and letting the work take care of itself.

30 days to a habit change - day 8

I wonder if the actual habit I'm building is posting every day.

I was doing pretty good yesterday, bit I get frustrated with the lack of time to get stuff done.

I quit caffeine a while back. I realized it was a cheap trick to stay awake to get stuff done. I just go to sleep instead. I feel a lot better, but I get fewer hours to do things. It's funny because go to sleep the second I feel tired at night. I sleep great and have energy all day long. That's what our bodies are supposed to do anyway.

But the habit is taking effect. I'm finding it easier to pause and put something on my todo list. And then I give it a date if needed.

30 Days to a Habit Change - Day 7

I've got all the items for my race in a nice long google tasks list. What's nice is I can assign dates to tasks and then they show up in google calendar. All I have to do is execute the list/calendar and everything is ready!

Some notable items still to do are significant. I want to re measure both the bike and the run. I also want to make potato wedges for backup fuel. All this is scheduled days ahead of time.

30 Days to a Habit Change - Day 6

Mmmm...  Almost forgot to post today.  Everything is going great, just lost track of time.  

I'm in full taper mode for the IronBaby, catching up with coaching, and trying to get everything lined up.  Busy, busy, busy!  

Created the list for the Ironbaby, just posting to it when I think of things.  I'm going to sort it by things that need to be done first to last.  Love the Google Tasks!

30 Days to a Habit Change - Day 5

Almost fell off the wagon today! It's Saturday and things are going so smoothly, I almost forgot to check my todo lists.  That's OK once the habit is solid, but not this early!

My list now is really composed of some notes I need to put down into a document somewhere.  I use Google Docs, so that should be real quick.

I also signed up for a subscription to Carbonite, an online backup service.  It's 50 bucks a year, but I could easily spend that on external drives and all that crap.  Might as well just save it all to the cloud.  They back up all your stuff while your computer is idle and you don't have to do anything except tell them which folders to back up.

I also have a HUGE list of everything to do for the IronBaby.  It's on paper, so that needs to be moved over to Google Tasks.

I'm about to head out for a swim, then do some coaching, then it's my son's b-day party.  Crazy day!