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Last week, I kicked ass on Tuesday.  I had a cranking workout, I took some applications,  got some files ready to close, got some good blog posts up, figured out more about PHP/MySQL/CSS, and had springs on my feet all day.  We’ve all had days like that, right?

Well..then Wednesday hit.

I woke up late.

I missed the gym (till later)

I felt like crap.

I frittered and procrastinated.

I didn’t write my goals down.

It sucked, I was getting frustrated with my wife.  It was all no good….but throughout the day, I was patting myself on the back for the good day that I had on Tuesday.  I was deluding myself that one good day can make it ok.  I would have been better off Wednesday going the zoo wit my kid.   I woulda been better off reading a book (Liar’s Poker, written 19 years ago eerilie forshadows the current Mortgage Fiasco).

But what I’ve learned lately is that numbers matter.

And what I suspect many self employed people do is to follow up a fabulous day with a bad one.  I’ve noticed that pattern–I’ve been guilty of it, and I’ve talked to some great people, and THEY are guilty of it.  So the gist is to LET GO of a day each night.  To let that day just be, and to relax.  I also know that one BAD day can just as easily beget another because you’re distracted with what went wrong yesterday. 

I’ve heard it before–I’m not claiming it as original thought, but every day is contained.   It starts at Zero-Zero.

So check it out–it’s an easy form that I made a few months ago when I was in a Mastermind Group.  Never took off, but it was the idea that we’d be able to work with this.

http://genuinechris.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/daily-recap.doc

Real dirt simple page.  Throw a date on it.  Write down what went right/wrong.  Dump out your brain.  Then have a ‘momentum building’ checklist on this thing.  You’ve essentially purged this day,   And so then you move on.