Habits and Eye Contact

As I said at the beginning, I reserve the right to do short posts sometimes. It's more important, in my mind, to keep in the habit of doing it once a week on weekends, than to delay it by expecting an opus each time.

That's a little habit building trick I picked up: if you want to create good habits, start with something small and manageable enough that you can definitely be regular with it. Regularity is most important. Even if, at first, the amount of time you spend on it ends up being almost pointless (and usually it's not, it's very helpful, even short amounts of time being much better than no time.) It will eventually become a habit, and the time spent can lengthen, after it has become a habit, and is no longer difficult to remember to do, or motivate yourself to start doing.

That's the real benefit of habits: doing things non-habitually costs concentration and often willpower. Turning it into a habit makes it effectively free, or close to free. There's the issue of it also making you tune out and become unconscious in general, and the solution to that, I think, is turning habit into ritual, but that's a subtle point for another day, and perhaps for a different blog, one more focused on my Life Coach-y musings.

Anyways, to conclude, here is something I stumbled across. Good evening friends :O)