I came pretty close to blowing off my lifting this morning.\u00a0 Rather, I started telling myself that I would justs go home and lift with dumbbells “later”.\u00a0 I had opened the gym, was feeling sick of being there, but I had my workout clothes with me.<\/p>\n
Now, in No\u00ebl’s World, “later” generally doesn’t happen.\u00a0 When I give myself an excuse like this, chances are very good I’m trying to wiggle out of whatever is going on.\u00a0\u00a0 When I realized what I was doing, I just told myself, “For pity’s sake!\u00a0 Just go lift and shower.\u00a0 You’ll still get home quite early in the morning in time to get your other work done.\u00a0 If you blow it off,\u00a0 you’ll be blowing things off all day in procrastination.”<\/p>\n
I try very hard to optimize my life so that it’ll be easier and make more sense to do the productive thing.\u00a0 You know, like packing one’s gym bag the night before, setting up the crock pot to cook dinner and having housework routines.\u00a0 I don’t how much time <\/em>it saves in the real world, but it does save mental effort and Stuff Gets Done.<\/p>\n The author of The No-S Diet, <\/em>Reinhard Engels, likens habit to a large and powerful beast that you can domesticate and use the energy to suit your purposes.\u00a0 I think this is true.\u00a0 ‘Course bad<\/em> habits are as powerful and dumb as the good ones!<\/p>\n How do you replace a bad habit with a good one, or get rid of a bad habit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I came pretty close to blowing off my lifting this morning.\u00a0 Rather, I started telling myself that I would justs go home and lift with dumbbells “later”.\u00a0 I had opened the gym, was feeling sick of being there, but I had my workout clothes with me. Now, in No\u00ebl’s World, “later” generally doesn’t happen.\u00a0 When … <\/p>\n