Failure is Part of the Process

Every week, I write down a list of the things I want to get done. 

Rarely do I ever succeed. 

The day gets pulled towards other priorities, or when I do have a moment to myself I find myself depleted of all energy. 

So I fail. 

I don’t meet my self-imposed deadline. I push things back. I reformulate tasks so that they can be done quicker and mostly just as well. 

Sometimes I feel bad about all this failing. 

But failure is part of the process. 

I learn tiny lessons each time I improvise a task to get it done quicker. Ideas that move further back on my calendar become more and more refined. I recognize patterns in my productivity cycles and learn to schedule around them. 

It may look like failure, but every day I’m getting closer to my goal.