Daily Success December 1 2023 – Yesterday

Daily Success December 1 is “Failed.” It’s not even close. With excuses galore, I didn’t even do my morning stretches for the first time in a LONG time. My bad.

But why? The simple truth is that my willpower didn’t just fail, it never even showed up for the battle. I had an early appointment with Dr. Goldmark that did make doing my stretches before getting dressed inconvenient.

So, I spent the day fiddling. The Internet Monster had its way with me. An hour or two was spent in the Library sorting through the piles of books and looking for duplicates. There is much more to do, but that was good for my psyche as almost all the dups found so far are low-value copies of books by authors I like. Just look at the two or three in my hands and keep the nicest one. A few, sadly, have been autographed copies that are a bit harder to part with, but part with them I must. Those shelves are not as extensive as one might think.

Next, however, will be harder. It’s time to decide which authors I do not collect and will not collect in the future. There are a lot of one and two book examples of “I might” up there and 90% of them have to be acknowledged as “I really won’t.”

There was an excellent training session with Cris. I now have a lot of SEO work to do on my existing seniorpilgrimage pages (most important) and posts (less so). It will be a lot of work, but I’ll enjoy it.

Today

Today I must get back on track. There are no appointments. There are no demands on my time other than to do what I’ve promised myself or someone else to do.

The Future

Fuzzy, fuzzy, fuzzy. My back pain continues to seem totally static one day to the next, but if I look back a week or two, it’s clearly not static. Last night, I slept on my stomach for a bit, something that wasn’t possible a week or two ago. If I can get that straightened out …

Looking back over the last few weeks, my fantasies about starting in Bordeaux or Arles (which will require a deviation when it gets to Oloron) and hiking to Irún seem to have fallen into disuse. This is not good as I need that carrot. Learning that I waited too long to sign up for hospitalero training hasn’t helped.

It’s time for me to focus on the positive. I can’t overcome the difficulties if I can’t envision the promised land that I will find after succeeding in that.