cosina
"I think being a woman is like being Irish." — Iris Murdoch
running Liz answered me about the habit thingy: she says it takes 21 days to form a new habit and 42 days to "set" it.
There it is: now "go forth and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas." [Gen. 1:22] Go on, do it!
The way Liz works with the idea is that when she wants to do something new, she sees whether she can do it for 21 consecutive days. It's her "trial period" and she regards her new goal or aim as "just an idea" until she passes the 21-day habit-forming period.
You ought to know that Liz is one of those tall, organized, organizing people. She has aims and goals and plans and strategies. I'm not the opposite of all that, I'm just different: I am not tall, but I admire organization and often strive for it. I once read a quote from Goethe that went something like, "You never go so far as when you have no idea where you're going." It sort of echoed inside me, rang a little golden bell in my heart, was very affirming, etc. I am not a goal or aim person. I tend toward things, work my way toward them, grow toward them. I'm indirect... I like to mull over things for a long time, and once the idea is clear I start working on it and making all kinds of mistakes. It used to bother me a lot that I wasn't more like Liz, but not any more.
Anyway, I ran home from work today. I couldn't run the whole way, dammit! My achilles tendon (shouldn't that be called something else in women?) was tight, as usual, but after a while it started to bother me, so I walked a little, and ran a little, and so on, until it felt HOT and then I just walked home. By the time I got there, it felt fine. I'm going to take a tylenol and some Emergen-C just as a preventive.
I'm not discouraged, but I am a little irritated. I guess I have to work some stretches into my day so I don't ruin my ankle.
I've learned that it's often easy to begin new things, but that initial enthusiasm is usually quickly followed by a built-in difficulty that seems designed to make you quit. So this first stumble is quite natural; it should be expected.
Wow -- "designed to make you quit" -- that's like Intelligent Design, isn't it?
There it is: now "go forth and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas." [Gen. 1:22] Go on, do it!
The way Liz works with the idea is that when she wants to do something new, she sees whether she can do it for 21 consecutive days. It's her "trial period" and she regards her new goal or aim as "just an idea" until she passes the 21-day habit-forming period.
You ought to know that Liz is one of those tall, organized, organizing people. She has aims and goals and plans and strategies. I'm not the opposite of all that, I'm just different: I am not tall, but I admire organization and often strive for it. I once read a quote from Goethe that went something like, "You never go so far as when you have no idea where you're going." It sort of echoed inside me, rang a little golden bell in my heart, was very affirming, etc. I am not a goal or aim person. I tend toward things, work my way toward them, grow toward them. I'm indirect... I like to mull over things for a long time, and once the idea is clear I start working on it and making all kinds of mistakes. It used to bother me a lot that I wasn't more like Liz, but not any more.
Anyway, I ran home from work today. I couldn't run the whole way, dammit! My achilles tendon (shouldn't that be called something else in women?) was tight, as usual, but after a while it started to bother me, so I walked a little, and ran a little, and so on, until it felt HOT and then I just walked home. By the time I got there, it felt fine. I'm going to take a tylenol and some Emergen-C just as a preventive.
I'm not discouraged, but I am a little irritated. I guess I have to work some stretches into my day so I don't ruin my ankle.
I've learned that it's often easy to begin new things, but that initial enthusiasm is usually quickly followed by a built-in difficulty that seems designed to make you quit. So this first stumble is quite natural; it should be expected.
Wow -- "designed to make you quit" -- that's like Intelligent Design, isn't it?
