Momentum!

On a positive note, this is the third week that I've been continuous with my diet and exercising!  And its only getting easier.  Momentum is definitely the word I would attach to this.  Initially, it was very difficult to go from no exercise and bad eating habits, to even taking the first step.  Even the first couple days was difficult just to get it continuing. 

However, at week 3, I'm feeling a different pull.  Whenever a decision comes up that would hurt the progress I've made so far, I get to thinking that I'm already deep into this process, and it makes my decision to not do that task that much easier.

I'm not sure how intermixed with my decision process it is, but there is also one more component.  I read someone say that when you come to a bad decision, ask yourself if this is a decision you would want to make the same every day.  At the beginning, its easy to let that slide because I've only dieted/exercised for 2 days.  But now at 3 weeks, I've got a lot more to lose.  Asking myself that question as I progress makes it easier and easier to say no.

Problems

So, I started my queue last night, and told myself I had 1 thing in it to do before I left for work this morning.  But you know what?  This morning, I didn't bring up the queue at all, and so it didn't get done.  For now, I need to work on not going completely on auto-pilot in the morning.  This might be resolved by adding a process in which I periodically go through my queue, or what I'm liking even more right now, is going through everything I'll need to do for a task as I'm entering the last period of time before an event (Like after waking up, since my morning is pretty much devoted to getting ready for work).

Trying to remember what to do

So, one big issue I'm having is with remembering all the tasks that I tell myself I need to do before something.  As I'm planning it out, I will usually touch on most of the things I need to do at least once in my mind.  However, when it gets to a point where I can actually do the tasks, I won't always do all of them because I forget some. 

I'm testing out a way to help with this: Error checking.

Simply, I'm going to keep a "Total tasks" variable in my mind to keep track of how many tasks I have in my queue.  That way, whenever I add a new thing to my list, I know how many tasks I need to have in my queue, and I'll go through my queue to refresh in my mind all of them. 

It has helped me the last two days to ensure that I complete all the tasks, when I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have remembered on my own.  I'll keep posted with how much I think this ends up helping.

Returning!

I'm going to start using my blog for a lot of things, like how I think humanity can be bettered and also as a medium for me to display some of my creative writings like story ideas and poems.  For now, I want to challenge some people!

I challenge everyone to say hello to someone you have been avoiding speaking to.