The No Excuses Project: Moving towards a perfect garden

I’m trying to be realistic with this one – there’s only so many projects that can fill up the available free time.  The goal of the no excuses project is  to stop putting off the possible, not how to become a superhero! While a garden is very important to me, it’s not a critical component of anything else.  So here’s the new plan:

1. Relatively quick and non-muddy tasks will happen in the evenings every day that they’re needed. This would be watering, fertilizing, slug bait, etc.
2. Leaving a block of time on the weekends for everything else: weeding, pruning, transplanting and the like.  I’m not going to even try to do more than two hours here and if it rains, it can skip a week without being a problem.

That’s it – nothing fancy or grand, just a basic plan to move things along.

Holding myself accountable

So here’s where I’m at:

• Photography – some research into improving the website and the like, but did not pick up the camera this week  – I need to work on that
• Losing weight – meals are going fairly well and some exercise has happened but not what I committed to myself

All in all it’s been kind of a mediocre week and I’m striving to be more mindful.

Next week: the goal of true love and where I’m getting in my own way – since I found myself making excuses not to address this topic next, it should be interesting…

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