#1316 - those small choices
It's late. I am late. I should be ready for a conversation right now, but I'm not. I still have to finish my morning practices, and I'll have to skip breakfast only to be late but not too late.
How comes?
I am usually quite punctual, plus I'm an early morning person.
Yet, I'm late and still sleepy.
And the more I look into this situation I've created for myself, the more I realize that it all boils down to all those little choices we make through the day.
Like plugging the phone to charge near the bed so I couldn't resist checking for messages, I wasted too much time staring at the screen.
I also went to bed late because I decided to sit on the couch to check the last thing on my laptop. And that last thing led to another last thing.
Again, tiny choices.
But they all compounded over time, and here I am, late for something I care about.
"Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy." —James Clear
The thing with choices is that we pay a lot of attention to big ones and easily overlook the small daily ones with the wrong assumption that they won't make such a difference.
But they do.
So, here's a reminder to myself: to be more mindful of small things. And maybe that will also make the big ones easier.