Posts under ‘Habituating’

My 30 day challenge of not hitting the snooze button went well. I think I only hit it once the first week of the challenge.
I’ve made a lot of improvements in my running. I’ve even lost 7 pounds. Right now my schedule is 62 minutes on Saturday and Sunday and [...]

My pressing the snooze button totally messed up this challenge. I’ve been getting up late and not going to the gym for about two weeks. There were quite a few times when I didn’t even realize I had turned the alarm off. So I’ll have to start a new challenge. It [...]

I’m getting inspired by Personal Development for Smart People. I’ve decided to revisit the 30 day challenge. I’ve done two so far. The first was to stop complaining for thirty days in 2006. The second was waking up at 5:00am every day for 30 days. Both of these challenges were [...]

Ok, I went 10 days without working out. Some of them I had my period and then I was just too tired to get up but today I went back. It was short because I didn’t get up as early as I needed to in order to get my full workout. [...]

I’ve started a 30 day challenge. For 30 days I will not complain out loud. What is a complaint? For the purposes of this excercise a complaint is commenting on the current situation with emotion, in a way that makes it seem undesireable. For instance, “Oh God! I hate washing [...]