The challenge for most of us is to stop looking back and start to look forward.
Accounting is rear view work. So is calorie counting. And carbon reporting.
We count things and by the time we know where we were, we are now somewhere else.
It’s easier to count things after the fact so that’s what we do. But knowing what’s going on a month or so later isn’t really much help.
But maybe we should be looking at things differently.
For example, say you set a daily budget – for anything, your spending, the number of calories you can take in, the amount of carbon you can burn.
Then, you work out what you think you’re going to do that day first thing.
And you keep a record, jot things down and at the end of the day work out your daily profit and loss.
That’s a good signal.
If you’re negative, say you’ve spent too much today, maybe it’s time to back off and give it a couple of days to rebuild your numbers.
Real change happens slowly, one day at a time.
Handcrafted insight 