See The Change You Are Making

WE fool ourselves about our ability to remember.

We generally do not – we need to set clues to remind ourselves of what we have pledged to do.

I have been meaning to go swimming for two months now. Most nights I say to myself I am going to do it tomorrow.

And I have every intention to do so – it is not fooling myself or lying.

But come the morning it is not even that I have decided not to do so – I am so busy going through my long-established routine I simply do not remember my promise to myself.

Until that night, when it is too late and I make the same promise again for tomorrow.

For me, I need to put it in my calendar – right there, against a time, in between that meeting with my manager and that plate of elephant I need to eat one bite at a time.

And it would help if I left my swimming kit by the front door, or on the passenger seat of the car so it is right there in front of me.

Reminded.

Good, let’s go and get a few lengths done.

What is the best visual reminder for you? There was a good reason people knotted their hankies to help them remember things.

Today we have smartphones so there really is no excuse.

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