Can you believe that? I'm hardly back into the blogging world for a week and I'm already slacking... I suppose its getting back into the habit. In fact, I think most things are hard to get back into (or get out of) because of habit. Take my horrible habit of occasional smoking. I have been a smoke on and off for the last few years of my life. I went through a period of intense smoking in college, and then I cut down to about 3-5 a day, and of course many many more on those nights that I was out drinking... Then I totally quit last year, and even though there were moments where it was really hard, I had gotten over it and I was fresh and healthy! - until one of my friends stupidly told me that one or two cigarettes when you're drinking wouldn't get me back into the habit. Yeah, right.
So then I went back to the 3 a day thing. Until I just got sick of it. And right now I'm trying SO hard to just stop smoking entirely. We're at 5 days now...yay! That's the worst kind of habit.
Then there's the eating / working out habit. I love working out and eating healthy. But if I go through a phase where I stop eating healthy for a few days, I then get lazy and then stop working out. It's a vicious cycle I tell ya! Since I got back from Cabo a couple of weeks ago and then got my wisdom teeth pulled, I became a big lazy ass. And felt like shit too! Today I woke up and ran for 40 minutes and felt awesome... moral of the story - work out and you'll feel better!
My new thing is going to be procrastination. I'm a BIG procrastinator - always was, and now I'm starting to get sick of it! I'm seeing a therapist and today I told her about how I hate that about myself and she told me about a book called "The Power of Now". It basically talks about how to end procrastination but most importantly it dispells the myth of why we procrastinate... most people think that they procrastinate because they are lazy. In fact, it's not laziness but its fear of failure. Those who are anxious about overachieving and doing extremely well in life tend to push away projects due to fear of not doing "well" on it... Crazy.
Anyway, that is that... I'm off to watch some good TiVo'ed television...
