Hey, I know how that Addiction thing is - that's why I don't play video-games...much. Heck, DDR is pretty much the only one I play, and since I got my pad back - 1 hour Monday, 1 hour last night, 1 hour tonight (Got my first AAA ever tonight, by the way).
I also find it difficult to change certain habits that are ingrained in me. I started doing light weights last week, but only because I’ve told myself for the past, oh, 10 years that I should get in better shape. Since I’m cheap and spent $10 on these 2 5lb weights, maybe I’ll use them! I’m slowly getting Becky to show me some workout routines. Maybe someday I’ll actually take a Martial Arts class – another thing I’ve been telling myself to do for the past 10 years.
If you’re like me, the only way to ever change something is to set the goal and (I hate to quote advertisements like this) JUST DO IT. With our addictive personalities, if we START a routine of something we want to do, we’ll keep at it – it’s just the starting part that is hard.
I started practicing the guitar a couple months ago. Not much, just a half hour a night, and I’ve since stopped. Why? Because I had too much to do in a single night to get it all done. So I guess that means part 2 of the Set a Goal and Just Do It is this – set a few reasonable goals that you really want, and make sure you have time to devote to them, otherwise they’ll be wasted. It’s almost 10PM, which means I won’t have time to practice tonight either, I’ll go have a small snack and read a book (another habit I’ve finally gotten into – I read so slow I NEED to read at least 30-60 minutes a night in order to finish a book before the first pages have decomposed!)
I’ll finish with this: 1) Are the swords done? I don’t remember reading you finishing them – time is short if you haven’t! That’s the short version – the long one is Finish What You’ve Already Started before moving on. 2) Think of your big goals, and make sure you make at least STEADY PROGRESS on them. My problem is I’ll go in spurts – get a whole lot done in a short time, and then do nothing for a long time. That’s bad. I’m bad that… 3) Don’t listen to advice. 4) Trust me on the sunscreen.
-tt – who is proving that we should get off the darn computer and go eat some Tiramisu
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Date: 2005-12-01 03:02 am (UTC)I also find it difficult to change certain habits that are ingrained in me. I started doing light weights last week, but only because I’ve told myself for the past, oh, 10 years that I should get in better shape. Since I’m cheap and spent $10 on these 2 5lb weights, maybe I’ll use them! I’m slowly getting Becky to show me some workout routines. Maybe someday I’ll actually take a Martial Arts class – another thing I’ve been telling myself to do for the past 10 years.
If you’re like me, the only way to ever change something is to set the goal and (I hate to quote advertisements like this) JUST DO IT. With our addictive personalities, if we START a routine of something we want to do, we’ll keep at it – it’s just the starting part that is hard.
I started practicing the guitar a couple months ago. Not much, just a half hour a night, and I’ve since stopped. Why? Because I had too much to do in a single night to get it all done. So I guess that means part 2 of the Set a Goal and Just Do It is this – set a few reasonable goals that you really want, and make sure you have time to devote to them, otherwise they’ll be wasted. It’s almost 10PM, which means I won’t have time to practice tonight either, I’ll go have a small snack and read a book (another habit I’ve finally gotten into – I read so slow I NEED to read at least 30-60 minutes a night in order to finish a book before the first pages have decomposed!)
I’ll finish with this:
1) Are the swords done? I don’t remember reading you finishing them – time is short if you haven’t! That’s the short version – the long one is Finish What You’ve Already Started before moving on.
2) Think of your big goals, and make sure you make at least STEADY PROGRESS on them. My problem is I’ll go in spurts – get a whole lot done in a short time, and then do nothing for a long time. That’s bad. I’m bad that…
3) Don’t listen to advice.
4) Trust me on the sunscreen.
-tt – who is proving that we should get off the darn computer and go eat some Tiramisu