I’m Beat By Myself
I have been trying to change some habits for nearly 20 years - that is a long time to be unhappy with how I do some things. I often get up loads of enthusiasm and say to myself - okay today this will happen and that will not happen.
Most times I don’t even last the day.
I have been reading another blog and today he has a post on changing habits that I like. I remember speaking to a psychologist in the early 1990’s - he told me changing any habit was hard going and he did not consider a habit changed until after six months, enough to depress me - okay too easily depressed some times.
I have been paying membership to a gym just five minutes from my house for nearly a year now. In that year I have not become any lighter, I have not become any thinner, and I have not become any fitter - why? Well you know the answer, like many thousands of other people I pay for a gym that I don’t use. I wonder what satisfaction I am getting from that.
So today it is all change…
Just kidding, been down that road before and it did not work. I am going to rejuvenate the habit of swimming, one that I used to do almost every day until I moved back to Ireland. For thirty days I will swim at least every other day, and that it it. During the next 30 days I will not take on any other habit of mine that I wish to be different.
What about you? Anything you want to do today?
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