Yesterday, prompted by my mom and sister, I watched this:
Coming out of the holiday-season-hospitality-funk has left me with more unstructured time but less direction on how to use it, so the timing for sending me this video couldn't have been better!
The idea is to create and delete habits from your life, to choose specific goals and work toward them, to work on one or just a few so that they're attainable.
So naturally I've come up with more than one. I'd thought about blogging about it daily, but I'm hesitant to add too many things to the "30 day list" at once.
That said, every day for the next 30 days I plan to:
- Sit in silence for 5 minutes
- Read 20 pages of a book
- Do something
"Do something" seems like a little bit of a cop out, since the idea is to accomplish a specific thing. But here's my thought: deciding to complete a task or activity and following through (without being compelled by anything but my own will to do so) daily is a habit in and of itself. Two days ago I went out dancing at a dubstep night and had a great time. Yesterday I decided to get around to folding a mountain of laundry that I had sitting around and fully make my bed (after sleeping on top of blankets and flat sheets for 4 days.)
Today I'm going to cut, buff, and repaint my nails. They're splitting from a dry climate and cleaning supplies and the paint is chipped and looks awful. I've been meaning to do it for over a week.
As a person who naturally imagines, brainstorms, lists, and creates projects, it's easy to get bogged down in the thinking without ever getting around to completing, or sometimes even starting, any of them. So while folding my laundry might not seem like it needs to be set as a goal, it is "something." The silence and reading will start today.
Maybe this new goal-completion orientation will lead to more frequent blogging....then again, you never know. :)
Good night and good luck from snowy CO
Coming out of the holiday-season-hospitality-funk has left me with more unstructured time but less direction on how to use it, so the timing for sending me this video couldn't have been better!
The idea is to create and delete habits from your life, to choose specific goals and work toward them, to work on one or just a few so that they're attainable.
So naturally I've come up with more than one. I'd thought about blogging about it daily, but I'm hesitant to add too many things to the "30 day list" at once.
That said, every day for the next 30 days I plan to:- Sit in silence for 5 minutes
- Read 20 pages of a book
- Do something
"Do something" seems like a little bit of a cop out, since the idea is to accomplish a specific thing. But here's my thought: deciding to complete a task or activity and following through (without being compelled by anything but my own will to do so) daily is a habit in and of itself. Two days ago I went out dancing at a dubstep night and had a great time. Yesterday I decided to get around to folding a mountain of laundry that I had sitting around and fully make my bed (after sleeping on top of blankets and flat sheets for 4 days.)
Today I'm going to cut, buff, and repaint my nails. They're splitting from a dry climate and cleaning supplies and the paint is chipped and looks awful. I've been meaning to do it for over a week.
As a person who naturally imagines, brainstorms, lists, and creates projects, it's easy to get bogged down in the thinking without ever getting around to completing, or sometimes even starting, any of them. So while folding my laundry might not seem like it needs to be set as a goal, it is "something." The silence and reading will start today.
Maybe this new goal-completion orientation will lead to more frequent blogging....then again, you never know. :)
Good night and good luck from snowy CO
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Glad to see you're back...hope that blogging count as "something". ;) I'm gonna watch the vid. now. Thanks.
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