Just Do It Anyway

“Alice’s take on today”

After yesterday’s strain on my various injuries and a severe lack of sleep overnight, I felt like absolute shit when I woke up this morning. I seriously considered staying in bed and not even doing today. But, as I considered this, I also considered the fact that staying in bed would mean foregoing what needed to be done this morning: 9:00 Physical Therapy appointment a half hour away, making sure my husband got fed before I left, then meeting Alice at 10:30 to get our caffeine fix for the day coupled with sitting at Caribou and working on our various tasks for the Road Trip together (in particular, I needed to be able to report some progress on one of my deliverables at the team meeting this evening). I hadn’t made any progress on this particular deliverable (recreating the spreadsheet for Road Trip Planning that I accidentally lost while trying to figure out how to use “Numbers” on my iPad instead of an Excel spreadsheet on my computer (no need to cover the details of how that conversation went with my iPad, as it wasn’t pretty). So, I felt compelled to put some time in on that today, as it was critical to get done as soon as possible so we could start capturing the myriad of details we were compiling for the Road Trip.

So, staying in bed would mean I would have to “no-show” my physical therapy, leave it to chance as to whether my husband got breakfast, text Alice and tell her I wasn’t feeling good enough to meet up with her, and I would have to report in our weekly team meeting that I had done absolutely nothing on the spreadsheet. The reality of that didn’t appeal either so, ultimately, I chose to get out of bed and regardless of how I feel, I need to just do it anyway.

Well, guess what? My husband got breakfast, I made it to Physical Therapy (even though every step seemed like it was physically impossible), stopped at the local Police Station to talk to them about helping the groups leaving on the motorcycle Memorial Ride I’m planning (see yesterday’s blog) safely out of town for our ride. Then, I picked up Alice and got into the passenger seat so she could drive. I figured that would increase our odds of making it safely to Caribou.

We got our caffeine fix, my sandwich, and settled in to work. As I started to work on recreating my spreadsheet, sharing the document so she could see it real time while we discussed how I was building it, all of a sudden I found a copy of my original spreadsheet, complete with the last updates I made. Now, where the fuck did that come from? I swear, I spent hours looking for that sucker. “Hot Fuckin Dog!” It wasn’t going to take me another minute to have a good update for the team. Although, I actually did spend some more time making changes per the discussion we kept having, so there you go, even more accomplished.

I got so energized by what I accomplished, through no fault of my own, that all of sudden my body cheered up and I was no longer as achy and tired as I had been since I woke up. My various pains were still there, but the rest of it wasn’t. Amazing…a big win for my day in so many different ways only because today I chose to being accountable to myself and those I interact with and “Just Do It Anyway, regardless of how I feel.”

P.s., I just figured out that the whole debacle with the spreadsheet coming back after I wrote over it, was because when I posted it, Alice downloaded it to her iPad. She opened it, shared it, told me to accept it and all of a sudden it appeared. Still learning this whole Apple/iPad world and the possibilities that exist when you collaborate across Apple devices. How amazing.