Still at it. Another day of keeping the habit going. I thought I should list the ways I am attacking things.

I use toodledo.com as a place to collect all the little tasks in my life that I might forget. In my mind this is what web 2.0 is all about. I can easily add a task online and then put a priority or due date. It has more features but I don't most of them because it works already for me. I also have an iPhone and they have an entry page designed specifically to fit the screen. Too cool!

There are always items on the list. Right this second there are 12. I then get to the end of the day and before going offline (sleeping) I visit one final time and promote 3 new items to the hotlist. I use the next days date for the due date and then toodledo puts those automatically in a separate page that I have as an icon on my iPhone. So that is pretty simple. Then I just check them off as accomplished.

The course correction I was referring to in the title has to deal with contingency plans. Yesterday it happened once and today it happened on all 3 of my items. Different things happened that made it impossible for me to do them. So what did I do? Well, I promoted 3 other items up to the hotlist and did them instead. Also, something urgent popped up and I got that done. That is a good success but I am not totally happy with it. It is great that I still knocked 3 things off my list. Seeing those 3 things not done makes me feel a little bit of annoyance. It feels motivating however, not a negative at all. I am going to take a little more into account when planning tomorrow. Today it rained and that threw off one of the items. I could have thought that through last night but didn't.

All in all I think things are going swimmingly since my actual goal for this month is not to do 3 things a day but to make the plan of attack for the next day. So I am batting 1000 so far.

Wow, I had no idea that just by doing 3 things a day I could feel so in control. Here it is not even 5pm and I have been done for hours. Granted I didn't have a real freelance workload but that doesn't matter. If I did it would have just been on my list as one of my Most Important Things.

So what did I do with the free time? I did something that I was going to save for tomorrow. I also did a little work on this site. I posted on the zenhabits forums and on 43things to help keep myself motivated and help others a bit. Now I am about to get off the computer and my wife and kids will be home to dinner ready for them! Cool!