http://www.phagos.org/2009/10/22/the-happiness-experiment-day-two/ writings, lyrics, poetry, rituals, and other musings Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:55:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.phagos.org/2009/10/22/the-happiness-experiment-day-two/#comment-11864 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:47:56 +0000 http://www.phagos.org/2009/10/22/the-happiness-experiment-day-two/#comment-11864 Perhaps it would be better to continue to consider it an experiment, even though you can see it works. Remember the affirmation about being able to do for one day what would overwhelm you if you considered doing it for a lifetime? Even if normally that is used when discussing drug/alcohol addictions, it still applies to many other things as well. For those of us with a tendency to procrastinate, facing doing something for the rest of our life - no matter how good a thing it might be - seems to immobilize us. Embrace the experiment, you don't have to do it for the rest of your life. Habits take at least 21 to 28 days to form the pattern in our brains. So, continue to experiment rather than claiming a life changing new habit before it is firmly in place. Eat the elephant one bite at a time. ~Autumn Perhaps it would be better to continue to consider it an experiment, even though you can see it works. Remember the affirmation about being able to do for one day what would overwhelm you if you considered doing it for a lifetime? Even if normally that is used when discussing drug/alcohol addictions, it still applies to many other things as well. For those of us with a tendency to procrastinate, facing doing something for the rest of our life - no matter how good a thing it might be - seems to immobilize us. Embrace the experiment, you don’t have to do it for the rest of your life. Habits take at least 21 to 28 days to form the pattern in our brains. So, continue to experiment rather than claiming a life changing new habit before it is firmly in place. Eat the elephant one bite at a time. ~Autumn

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