Goal Post Moving

I've set a goal for myself the past 2 weeks.. and sadly haven't been able to hit it! Lol

I think goals are an important aspect of life, especially being an adult. It doesn't even have to be lofty goals, although those are helpful as a guiding principle but it's normal shit!

With my son being back in school, one of the things I wanted to do was set a goal of going for a walk in the mornings. I need to get more exercise on a daily and weekly basis, but I think sometimes the hardest part when we're in a tough spot is to just get up and do it. Commitment is hard!

This for sure gets me a little frustrated on some mornings, but I've got a lot of other things to do and sadly, that's the way things go as an adult a lot of times. The priorities change and we end up doing different things than what we would really like to do. Not that what I am able to get done is anything bad, but it's the balancing act. I would love to go for a nice walk, but I also have to fix this thing, organize that and so on. It becomes a battle a lot of times! Lol.

I know that now that we are in September, that I need to get my butt in gear and really do some exercising. Not that I dislike the cold weather, but it's incredibly refreshing to go for a nice walk in the brisk weather that is classic of where I live. A light sweater in the morning and by the afternoon you're in shorts. It's a wonderful change of pace!

The list of things that we have to do never shrinks, but I think that's largely perfectly fine in a lot of ways. It's good to have a lot of things going on than having absolutely nothing going on. Idle hands are not really a good thing, especially these days!

I'd love to sit down on my ass and play some video games or something stupid, but I think that I've grown out of that stage for the most part. I might occasionally, if the fancy hits me just right, do something like that but I also feel annoyed that I do that and would get upset if I wasted my time on my ass instead of accomplishing a task.

I know that we need downtime and mental relaxation and shit. That stuff is great indeed but I think one of the signs of getting older and maturing is being able to adapt our mindset and find the enjoyment in other things compared to what we used to. I haven't turned on my video game console in 10 years or more, which is wild to think about sometimes. I won't get rid of the thing.. but I also don't really plan on spending a whole lot of time on the damn thing. It's one of those things where you don't want to get rid of it, but you also don't want to use it.

I am thinking that I need to start with at least one day of going for a walk. I know that I will feel fantastic after doing it and make it a point to do it more, but very often the hardest part is just getting started!

What about you, do you set some goals for yourself weekly? Do you accomplish any of the big ones? Let me know in the comments!