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I have a friend who is very anal. I’m sorry to be so blunt, but there is really no other way to put it! God love him. No, God tolerate him!

At the Christmas Party we went to last month, he brought LABELED Jell-O shots. He came armed with a cooler in one hand and a color-coded chart in the other!

Now I ask you, how many times have you been in a situation where Jell-O shots are involved and charts would have been of ANY use at all?!

Do you see what I’m saying here?

Well, our same group had a New Year’s Eve party. Money was pooled and $750 of fireworks were purchased. We were not kidding around here! We were going for the big show!!

But while the rest of us were relaxing that afternoon in anticipation of the night ahead, he was making a chart!

The smaller fireworks were separated from the bigger ones and not included on said chart.

And on this chart he left room for a rating system. Assigning one of our group to place anywhere from one to five stars beside the name based on crowd appeal.

In other words, if we made lots of noise it got five stars.
But his mistake was in leaving one blank line before the last one. The grand finale.

That was just the space I needed to write in one more firework name: ANAL ANAL ANAL DON! (Yeah, his name is Don.)

Because you see, I know my friend well enough to know he would have so much faith in his list that he would fail to notice it had been added last minute!

So, in the dark of the night, with flash light in tow, I hear him walking the pier saying, “Where is the one called ANAL? I know it’s around here somewhere. It’s got to be. It’s on my list.”

But you know what? That was important enough to him to make a list. And he WILL have that list at the ready for the next firework occasion. Because that is important to him.

It took a little extra time, but it was worth it in his eyes. It’s a tool he can refer to again and again.

And that is what my workout log is to me. It’s important to me and it’s a tool I have at the ready when I need it. Some days, when I’m just not sure what I want to do, I will pick up and old log and do exactly what I did on a previous day.

Or sometimes I just like to see how far I’ve come.

And you can bet it was fun when I was logging my weight and got to watch it falling from 256 to now!

It takes a little time and effort, but I’m worth it and so are you!
But just wait till I go to the firework store early next time and slap a label on a box that says: ANAL ANAL ANAL DON! Because I did put five stars by it after all.

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