Re: What's your worst habit and what's your plan to mess it up?

[Anonymous]

Day 3: today was the toddler-and-the-cookie-jar syndrome. I woke up early enough (1/2 hr early) to do a morning meditation practice (half hour), take a shower, eat a quick breakfast and get to work on time. I stayed in bed the first half hour to make up for staying up until midnight last night. Was pokey taking my meds (I am not a morning person), looked at my business email, clicked on a newspaper website and opened a few tabs with headlines. Normal distractions, but this time I paid more attention to the little voice saying “you should be getting in the shower now, save those news stories to read while you’re eating your breakfast”, which I did.

But I didn’t get out of the house until 8:40 am, and with road construction, didn’t get to work until 9:00 am. Then at 9:30, I got a call from my doctor’s office saying they had a cancellation and would I like to come in at 10:10 am instead of a week Friday. Save the Friday for goofing off early, I thought!

Since we decided yesterday I was only working a half day today, I gave up on the day and went to the doc’s office. We spent the afternoon cutting down a diseased cherry tree in the back yard and cutting it up and bundling it for the yard waste collection tomorrow (pickup for yard waste is every two weeks so it was the day to do it).

So I did get to work relatively early, but it was not a productive day work-wise. However we really needed to get that tree down.

I think I need to continue this, to stay off the computer in the morning, and adjust my goal to get to work at 9:00 am. My husband would say “keep it at 8:30 am”, because he knows how I find stuff to do, to distract me, from getting anywhere on time (I’m either very early or late). Intentions are good, I’m getting there, but so prone to relapse! Damn internet!

At least I got off Facebook over a year ago. We watched the movie The Social Network tonight, and I am so glad I got off that hamster wheel.

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