Think about your daily routine. How much does that change from day to day? Do you have certain goals each day? What or who forms the goals for you?
Now, I would say my daily routine is far from perfect. Something new seems to come up almost daily that throws the entire routine for a loop, and we just do our best to adapt to it. When it comes to this magazine though, I (admittedly imperfectly) still try to reach every deadline and goal set for it. Every month my goal is to see the finished product and evaluate my efforts from that.
This month, I am most looking forward to seeing the forage statistics poster. It’s the middle spread of this issue and is meant to be taken out of the magazine and kept for your reference. While all of the numbers come straight from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Services yearly report released in January, I spend quite a bit of time pulling the numbers needed and calculating the rankings for each box.
Every year, the March issue throws the curveball of the stats poster, and while I don’t have my routine for getting it done perfected, I hope you value the finished product and find it useful. To me, seeing the finished poster that I can reference throughout the year makes it a task worth repeating.
Now back to my original question, what things in your daily routine change from day to day? Aside from the “have-to” tasks and other daily responsibilities, is there something you could incorporate that would make you feel accomplished? Or just feel proud of what you’ve done?
Is it choosing five things from your pile that need to be shredded and just doing five a day? Is it organizing one toolbox a day until they are all done? Or maybe just cleaning the kitchen every night after dinner.
There’s a lengthy list of things I could suggest, but truthfully, the likelihood that you already know what you want to accomplish has popped into your mind already. Taking time to instill those habits slowly in your daily routine may help more than just the task getting accomplished, but also the task of knowing you can behold healthy habits that cause you to feel accomplished each and every day, and, over time, see a big difference in your life. As Colin Powell is credited with saying, “If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception; it is a prevailing attitude.”
Little things each day don’t seem that hard to change, right? My first little thing is going to be more prepared to knock out that stats poster next year, but for now, I think I’ll just try to remember to mop my floors more often.
