Reprioritizing Priorities

As I noted yesterday, our daughter graduated with her BSN yesterday. It was a wonderful time of celebrating with her and her family, and most of our immediate family. To thank their daughters (4 & 6) for their patience while mom was in school (and dad will finish his MBA in August), my daughter and her family left around 4:30 AM today and are heading to Disney World.

To help them out, we have the granddog :-) while they're gone. We picked up the dog in the pouring rain, which meant I had the, ahem, joy of riding all of the way home with a wet dog on my lap. I had just about forgotten about the distinctive smell of a wet dog, but it all came back in a flash!

One of my biggest challenges lately has been getting in the regular exercise I need, and I have fallen into the dangerous trap of thinking (and sometimes saying) that I'm too busy to exercise. Guess what? For the next 11 days, I have a dog that will need to be walked a couple of times a day, and she really doesn't care if I'm busy or not! And guess what else? I'll make the time to walk her, because it's in my best interest (and the interest of my carpeting) to make sure she gets a good walk in.

It's funny how we suddenly find times for things when they become a higher priority for us. We can make (and find) a million excuses to do or not do something, until a switch is thrown and that something becomes a priority for us. It's frustrating for me to acknowledge this, because in my head I KNOW I need to exercise, but I put it off and put it off, until a 15 lb. ball of fur reprioritizes my schedule.

So I am committing to getting some exercise today, and once Coco goes back to her home, to continue to make time to do it.

Is there something that you need to reprioritize today? I hope one thing that's already high on your priority list is a commitment to an on-plan day, right? :-)