Two challenges for February - what and why
I recently started reading Leo Babauta’s excellent Zen Habits blog. It covers
“achieving goals, productivity, being organized, GTD, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, getting a flat stomach, eating healthy, simplifying, living frugal, parenting, happiness, and successfully implementing good habits.”
It’s the first five items on the list that I feel particularly apply to me: I’ve been worrying a lot recently about the exams I have in a few months and whether or not I’m going to have the motivation to do the necessary amount of work/revision. I like to think (As those sloths like me do) that I’m chronically lazy, which of course is just my way out of doing things I don’t want to, and my way in to laziness. A bit of advice on getting out of the rut of laze and unfulfilment might come in handy, I reasoned.
Each Zen Habits post has been full of this advice, from 30 Things to Do to Keep From Getting Bored Out of Your Skull at Work to yesterday’s 17 Unbeatable Ways to Create a Peaceful, Relaxed Workday, and each made me feel increasingly that I had to act on Leo Babauta’s (Who incidentally appears to be the most healthy, fulfilled person ever) advice. So when I read my first ‘Create a New Habit‘ post, which encourages readers to undertake a new life-improving challenge a month and post about it in the Zen Habits forum, I decided action must be taken:
This month I will be attempting to note every single, small and large, purchase I make, and to do 10-20 minutes of revision a night. It’s a small start, but I ‘m going to keep it up. If I do (Which I will!), then in March I will be running for 20 minutes early each morning,as well as keeping up my old habits.
I think that if I approach my ‘habits’, as they’re called, with a bit of self-discipline and continue to read of Zen Habits, and combine both these things with actually really wanting to know how much dough I get rid of this month, and wanting to run in the mornings, I’ll have no trouble keeping up.
Thank you Zen Habits - I hope you make my life, and others, a little better his month, and continue to in the future.