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In my bedroom this morning, I sat on my chair to put on my shoes as part of my regular morning procedure. While sitting there, I noticed my hand-drawn log of pushups I've done as part of the One Hundred Pushups program. I'm overdue for my next round of pushups. 

But I've got so much work waiting for me at work, and I've already killed too much time reading policial blogs in bed on my iPhone. I don't need to be at my desk at a particular time this morning, but feel the weight of the huge to-do list I wrote out yesterday weighing down on me.

But the pushups take ten minutes. What difference is that ten minutes going to make in my day's productivity?

Break the cycle, I tell myself. Stop hiding behind your to-do list as your excuse for not doing everything. Getting in shape. Cleaning my room. Going to the dentist. I can avoid damn near anything if I'm "too busy." 

So I do the pushups. Ten minutes later, I'm feeling invigorated, and head off to work.

And I put another ten minutes into sharing the experience with you, because it's worth the ten minutes to share it.

And now for that to-do list!

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