Something is better than nothing.

[00:00:00] You are listening to the Daily Five, an experimental podcast by Aurooba, where I talk about something for five minutes. So let's get to it, shall we? I woke up late today, so did my spouse. We were tired and we just lay in bed going, okay, we're gonna wake up in five minutes. Okay, in two minutes, and naturally the five and two minutes were more like 10 minutes and 12 minutes, you know, the way it goes.

[00:00:37] Which also of course meant that in the morning we didn't have enough time left to do the yoga session we had planned before getting to the rest of our day. In fact, we only had like 15 minutes, I think when the planned yoga session would've been 30 minutes. But instead of calling it a wash [00:01:00] and saying, we'll try again tomorrow, we decided that we would do a 15 minute yoga session.

[00:01:06] So we found one on YouTube that was 15 minutes. In fact, I think it was like 14 minutes and 30 seconds or something like that. And we did that one and we felt good. Because I think, you know, I've talked about in a previous episode about when things don't go according to the plan, you can and should adjust so that you can do the thing anyway, but in a different schedule.

[00:01:32] But sometimes when things don't go to plan, you don't actually have enough time to do it the way you would want to. And I think that when that happens, the philosophy to follow is, "something is better than nothing". Right? So instead of doing a 30 minute yoga session, we did a 15 minute one. Was it part of the program that we've been following for the last little bit?

[00:01:59] No, [00:02:00] but it was yoga. It was the important thing that we wanted to do to start off our day correctly by moving and clearing our minds and feeling awake and even doing 15 minutes is better for us than to do zero minutes. The same thing goes for literally everything else in life. You know, it's better to do something than nothing.

[00:02:26] In some cases that something can lead to everything. Like when you have dishes to wash and you tell yourself you're just gonna wash one dish, but once you've washed that one dish, suddenly other dishes don't seem as daunting and you're able to just complete them. But at the same time, if all you did was wash that one single dish, that would be okay too, because you still made progress.

[00:02:54] Sometimes it doesn't matter as much how much forward [00:03:00] movement you make. It matters that you had forward facing movement, right? It is far more important to keep up the momentum rather than to judge yourself for how much you did with that momentum in any given day, because all of this adds up, right? Most of our goals, most of the things that we wanna accomplish are long-term things.

[00:03:25] Yes, sprints are important. Yes, it's important to, more often than not, complete and do the things as we had planned, do that full 30 day, 30 minute yoga session, or do that full hour and a half that you had dedicated and planned on for that one project. But once in a while, it is okay to say, okay, I couldn't do it for as long as I wanted or as much as I wanted,

[00:03:53] but I did do some. Give yourself some grace. I think when we [00:04:00] are working with long-term projects and long-term goals, it's really important to be giving yourself that grace and not being so hard on yourself if you're not perfect all the time. Because when you do something for a really long time, you're inevitably gonna have many imperfect days, and it's far more important to focus on the things that you did

[00:04:23] and can do and keep doing rather than focusing on what are the days when you did it perfectly right? So I'm happy that I did yoga today because something is better than nothing.

[00:04:45] Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.