I didn't want to write today

I didn't want to go for a four-mile walk today with my dog.I didn't want to spend an hour brushing my dog today.I didn't want to vacuum upstairs today.I didn't want to dust the boys' rooms today.I didn't want to write today.Those are a huge variety of things I didn't want to do today, yet I did all of them. Some were more necessary than others. We have a Siberian Husky. Brushing a Husky during the Big Spring Shed takes time (and I could have brushed for another whole hour, truth be told). And if you're not vacuuming your house during said shed, well, forget dust bunnies, you'll have dust grizzlies.On days that I don't walk her, Lumi gets super-antsy and is a real pain in the rear end. We have a Husky, Huskies need exercise. A lot of it. We chose the dog. We don't get to choose not to give her exercise. Sure, if it's raining, I'll call an audible. That's fair. But otherwise, even in the cold weather I have no excuse because she's a Siberian Husky and loooooves the cold weather.But do I have to write?Not really. But I do have to. I vowed to write every day this year. I need to get my brain moving, work my vocabulary, exercise my writing skills.I need to do what I promised I myself that I'd do. I'm really bad at follow-through, especially if it's a vow to myself rather than to someone else.I need to be writing this now, telling myself that I need to be writing. And explaining to myself why I need to be writing. And writing.In some ways, this is the most important item on my "I didn't want to" list, because it's the least important, in some ways. There are no consequences for not doing it. It's easier to do things that have actual consequences for not doing them, because you then have to deal with those consequences.The things that have no consequences for not doing them? Well, you've gotta find some other motivation. I guess this post is mine.Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid via Flickr Creative Commons.