If you read Tuesday’s blog (and if you didn’t, what have you been doing with your life?) then you’ll have noticed that I talked about the times on Tuesday that I wrote and then scheduled it.
The more observant of you will have then noticed it came out a little bit late.
About 11.30 rather than the normal 11am.
This was because I made a mistake.
In Wednesday’s blog I mentioned the automation that I use to publish these.
And how they had to be formatted in the correct way.
One of those is that the first line has to be in the format of ‘Day Date Month ~ Blog title’.
Eg: Tuesday 9th May ~ I’m catching up from the Bank Holidays
The automation then splits at the ~ and uses the first bit to delay until 11am on that day and the last bit for the blog title.
If you’re interested, the next line is a weblink to the image that’s used for the site and social media.
Within those 43 steps there’s a couple designed to stop it going wrong if I make a mistake.
If the formatting of that first line is incorrect, or the date is in the past, it doesn’t go any further and sends me a message.
Which is what happened on Tuesday.
I’d copied and pasted “Monday 8th May ~ ” from the previous blog, as I usually do, but then hadn’t edited to make it correct, which the system caught.
A simple failsafe to stop a mistake becoming a bigger problem.
Which we can all choose to implement in our lives.
A total number of calories we won’t go over for the week.
A maximum number of days in a row that we allow ourselves to go a bit “off plan” for.
A number of days we don’t allow ourselves to go beyond without some form exercise.
A set time in the week where we always stop and take stock of how things are going and set an intention for the coming week.
A time of day that we are always in bed by or won’t start watching something new after.
Sure, we could just choose to ignore all of these things.
Like we could just choose to ignore most things (I’ll cover tomorrow what we struggle to ignore though).
But having that intent in the first place will get us far further then repeatedly telling ourselves “I know what I need to do, I just need to do it”.
Much love,
Jon ‘Full of grace’ Hall
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