Yesterday wasn't a particularly good day.
I had a four-hour project planned that only lasted about two and a half hours. I came home, laid on the bed, played some games and basically tried to get my head out of life's pressures for a while.
It happens.
One thing I've been thinking about during my 90-day sprint is how easy it is to look around and start measuring yourself against everybody else.
There will always be people who are better than you at something. More successful. More disciplined. More talented. Further ahead.
There will also always be people behind you.
Neither one really changes what you need to do today.
Jordan Peterson made a point that has stuck with me: people need goals. If tomorrow you decide you're going to exercise for an hour, you've created something you can measure. Maybe you only make it 30 minutes. You didn't hit the goal, but you still exercised for 30 minutes.
Without the goal, you don't even know whether you passed or failed.
That's one reason I've become such a believer in spreadsheets, trackers and systems. I use them for business, money and now this 90-day sprint.
They give me a scoreboard.
They show me where I'm making progress, where I'm falling short, and whether the things I'm doing every day are actually moving me toward the life I'm trying to build.
The goal isn't to have a perfect scoreboard.
The goal is to have one.
Set goals. Keep score. Do your best to improve.
And when somebody else is better than you, let them be better.
You've still got your own work to do.
Yesterday wasn't my best day.
September 19 doesn't care.
Today, I start chipping away again.