Daily Gratitude: We hear this concept stated in so many different ways that you’d think it would sink in but most of the time it doesn’t.

How many times have you written out lists and ideas of things you want to do and “plan” to do? I bet your answer is at least once or twice; maybe even more.

How many times have you taken action on those things? Maybe you started planning. Maybe you even set down a great list of how you’re going to accomplish something.

Did you follow through on that list and the planning? How many times did you take NO action at all, just leaving the list to eventually be discovered by people who come after you? I should clarify what I mean by “come after you”. I mean your successors not the cops or the bill collectors type people coming for you.

That’s one great thing about this Novel November (formerly existent as National Novel Writing Month). If you want to participate, you have to write 1666 or 1667 words every day in order to get to 50.000 words. That’s pretty simple. It’s not easy even for someone like me who’s pretty wordy. Life gets in the way. But this is relatively short term – 30 days, 50,000 words. No one judges you. It’s an honor system but you know yourself what you have to do. The words may end up being deleted or expounded upon but you’ve written them.

Lots of things happen during this month but I won’t go into them in this post but people take these smell steps. They don’t just plan. And amazingly several hit books have come from this world wide tiny action steps.

What actions or deeds (small steps or deeds) can you do on one of those old lists? Can you start today?