Many advocates of getting organized suggest starting small. Pick one room, change one thing, start (or eliminate) one habit.

That’s crap.

I don’t write this blog to coddle you. Baby steps is nothing more than procrastination in disguise.

Now, before you leave in a huff, let me qualify.

Deciding to overhaul your entire life for the better — starting now — doesn’t mean executing this commitment flawlessly everyday. You’ll fail. You’ll have setbacks.

And that’s okay.

It is far superior to cheat on your diet two days a week than to never change your eating plan at all, which is — let’s be honest — really failing seven days a week.

Failure doesn’t last forever. If you succeed five days out of seven, soon you’ll find those small successes snowballing into a success streak, and you may “cheat” only once a month, or not at all.

The only true failure is never trying at all.

So break out the pen and paper and start listing your goals. All of them. Now post that list everywhere — your computer desktop, the front door, the bathroom mirror, the back of your hand. Commit to seeing them all through — starting now.