So far, so good

My MLI is the very short diary entry each night. I almost had trouble about a week in. I had to catch up with about three mini diary entries on the same morning; and often I end up catching up on entries a day or two later; but that's fine. I've noticed that it's easy for me to catch up on multiple days at once, which I take as a sign that this MLI is helping me keep what happened each day in my head naturally. I have been more upbeat since I started doing this.

I'll share an upbeat lesson I've learned: when you look back on what you did each day, it often makes more sense than when you're actually doing it. You might feel unproductive doing nothing much on a Sunday. But when you read or write "it was a Sunday and I did absolutely nothing, just read the paper and watched half of a movie," you realize, "well, that makes sense, I was recharging." You work hard all day on something that doesn't pan out, and you feel stupid, but if you look back, it makes sense that you gave that a shot. Lesson: when it comes to making use of our time, we are making somewhat better decisions than we think.