Why Didn't I Start Yesterday?

For many years around December 29th, I have thought, "wouldn't it be cool to do one thing every day in the coming year?"  Whether it was taking pictures, writing a blog, scrapbooking photos... nothing fit precisely and I usually ran out of time to come up with a brilliant idea that I could look at on December 31st as the "something cool I did for a year."  There I was on January 1st and as the hours wound down to the second day of the year and I came up with nothing innovative, I thought, ok, maybe next year.

And then today it hit me, in my quest for answers, I never came up with the right questions.  So this year, I'm going to give questions a try.  Asking good questions is so much more art than science, and it is undervalued.  We gravitate to the people and the articles and the blogs that give us the answers we want but we forget the element that brought the authors all that wisdom, and that was the asking of the powerful and insightful first questions.

We think good conversation, good presentation, good inspiration, good talking is about what we have to say, but as a friend and mentor once told me: just ask the right question, the rest will come.

So today's question is the most obvious for a quest that begins on January 2nd.

Why didn't I start yesterday?  

Why did I eat that last piece of cake?  Why haven't I been going to the gym?  Why didn't I start the presentation/project/article/paper/homework before now?  Why didn't I clean the house?  Why didn't I see that film while it was still out?

And so my first question is really, is the answer to that question really so important, or is it a path to self doubt, self judgement and self sabotage.  I don't know why I didn't start yesterday, so I'm going to relax.  I'm really excited to be starting today.