Day 30 - Flossing is a good thing

Flossing, yuck.  It's never something I've done all that much or consistently.  Thankfully I have pretty healthy teeth and even with out much flossing, I've only ever had 1 cavity.  But flossing is good, is important, and is to be done. OK, OK. I know all that but still haven't done well at it and so that's why it made the list.

I started Item 6 on June 24th, 2010.  This is the day I had my 6-month check-up and cleaning at the dentist.  I figured there was really no better day to start given my teeth were freshly cleaned.

Now I'm over 1 week in and I haven't missed a day.  Eleven more weeks for this item and then to keep doing it for good.  Somewhere a long time ago I heard or read that after 12 weeks a habit should be formed.  That's why I picked 12.

Also, now having read the Power of Less for Item 9 I realized that I had a unknowingly done a couple of other very good things when I set this goal that should help with motivation, namely:

• Anticipate - I set the start date a couple of weeks in advance, knowing that I had my dentist appointment. 
• Set an easy goal - I set the goal to be 4x per week, yet hoping to be doing it every day.  I figured that 4 was a lot better than I had ever done and was pretty much every-other-day.  
• Put up a chart - I put a small chart on my bathroom mirror so I can mark off each day.

So far so good.  I'm getting faster at it too.  I might actually have to buy some more floss one day.