Monday evening, my working at work day completed. October is a rather trying time for me with a legal manual to edit. It was created in Word Perfect and has some of the quirks that don't want to be removed for whatever reason, but I will get there. Rough estimate about 80 hours to go before it heads off to production before being shipped to the subscribers. Oh, it's the Australian Record Retention Manual if you want to go check it out....great cure for insomnia if you try and read it cover to cover.

But it has a deadline and one that cannot be easily moved, so I will fill my days with legalese and hope that my work colleagues supply the chocolate.

As I have said many times, unless a goal has a specific deadline, timeline or fixed end point, you will procrastinate til the cows come home. You will find all the excuses in the book and then use all of them to get out of doing what you know you should be. I can't, that's one of the reasons I like my job. Fixed deadlines keeps me on track.

But as for most other things in life, we are not bound by the same kind of rigid boundaries. Does it matter if you don't polish the furniture every week? Does it matter if you don't do the laundry (well I suppose it would if you ran out of undies) or clean the car, wash the dishes or anything else. Not really. We do or we don't. It's up to us. It's almost the same with diet and exercise, if you don't have someone to report to, you might be tempted to slack off a little every now and then. Go on you know I'm right.

I was talking to the owner of a personal training studio on the weekend, and he made a very interesting comment, he said that you needed to make an appointment 3 times a week with someone - that way you would turn up. I know I have said similar in the past, perhaps not quite as eloquently, but all the same, I do know what he means. You are more likely to go to the gym and work out if you have already paid for the priviledge. And if you still don't go and want to throw your money away, well please by all means, throw it my way I can make good use of it, even if you don't.

But all facetiousness aside, it is easy to say "I'm not going to the gym today because........" (fill in the blanks) so unless illlness knocks you off balance, no more excuses. I say illness, because sometimes an intense workout when you are not feeling 100% can do you as much harm as good. With your body fighting infection, the last thing it probably needs to do is re-build muscle tissue as well. So when you are genuinely ill, please rest, recover and then get straight back into it. But that is genuine illness none of this "I can't be bothered" rubbish. After a hard day at work, it might just be the thing that helps you bleed off the stress of the day allowing you to sleep well. OK, that's me off the exercise soap box for another day.

So what does tomorrow look like bringing? Well more manual I'm afraid. Thank goodness for good music.