So keeping your promises is really hard. I’m basically not promising anyone anything anymore in order to get my track record on point before this next week is over. Writing for an hour and 20 minutes everyday is also hard, but I managed to do it all this week, and on Valentines morning, I hit [...]

So ’tis the eve of another successful 21 day challenge. I skipped a few days of writing — not out of laziness, but b/c I honestly ran out of time. Also, I did spend money on non-necessities. A friend had a birthday dinner and it felt too miserly to eat beforehand and simply drink water [...]

So as you may or may not remember, I’m on a 21-day challenge not to spend money on anything but necessities. After the first week, I decided that man cannot live on fresh & easy pre-prepared and frozen meals alone, and decided to volunteer my uniquely inept services to test a series of recipes from [...]

So trying a new habit for 21 days, went MUCH better than only dedicating a week. I feel recommitted to exercising, and I also clocked over 60 pages on my new novel, which is pretty stunning. I won’t claim that all of these pages are good or anything, but like I was telling Gudrun from [...]

So if you’ve made it two weeks into your three for your tri-weekly habit, very good news: The hard bit is over and the last week should feel like a breeze. You’ll be wondering what took you so long to acquire this habit and you’ll be imagining your future life, even better now that you’ve [...]

Now, I have no science to prove it, but I firmly believe that whenever you embark on a new 21 days of good-habit forming that some obstacle will get in your way. Something will need your attention, the weather will go insane, a big project will need your attention at work. So I wasn’t surprised [...]

Well, after one great day of exercise, writing, and flossing, I managed to drop the ball for the rest of week, and I realized that drastic action needed to be taken. So back when I had a personal blog, I did about a year worth of taking on a two new habits (one practical, one [...]

For the second week in a row, I managed to totally not keep a new habit. Flossing didn’t even get off the ground and I’m a ton ashamed of myself. But I’ve decided that since my huge work project is finally winding this just might be the perfect week to turn over not one, not [...]

So I didn’t swim once over the past week — no time or energy. BUT I did walk a few times and that was pleasant, except when it came to walking back up our huge hill under the hot sun on a full stomach. I started feeling a little fainty, and CH had to go [...]

So following-through was a very interesting experiment, in that I thought it would be pretty straightforward, but it was actually really difficult. First of all, I don’t quite have the patience levels to perform this experiment perfectly. Things like booting up my computer and waiting for pages to download were constant challenges on my patience. [...]