A complete life overhaul, it ain’t (but that’s good, right?)

I find myself musing on this experience. Renee’s comment, where she declared her first tweak was a task, which she promptly did:

My first tweak was going to be to tackle a long-delayed task every week. I have a number of them, small ones many of them, so I thought I would just pick one at random and see if I could get it done. And I did, today. Which makes me think that is not the kind of tweak that is in the spirit of this endeavor. Or is it? Should I be doing (or resisting!) something every day?

As you know, the spirit of 52tweaks is that it’s not about rules or overhauling your entire life in one day. Which–it occurs to me–were exactly the kinds of resolutions I’d make in the past. Before New Year’s Eve. And they’d be discarded usually even before New Year’s Day, when I would wake up on a day off feeling slothful, and thinking, “maybe tomorrow.” When you have to do something for a year, or forever, why not try and get another day before starting?

My own answer to Renee is that yes– a manageable task planned and completed: what could be better?

Remember, this is supposed to be easy and do-able, in the way past resolutions were not (at least for me).

But do what you need to do. If your tweak was too manageable, or not manageable enough, then tweak it. No need to wait.

I am finding my tweak manageable too, as I expected. But this whole experience is making me mindful of other changes. I feel like just having made a list of possible future tweaks, I may be unconsciously implementing some of them without planning to. As I mentioned in the comments yesterday, I was led to clean my desk: no promise necessary.

I wonder if others will experience that too.