Now with Shit Goggles!
I’m usually a happy-go-lucky look-on-the-bright-side-of-life kinda guy, but seems like not been so much.
My wife had to have a hard talk with me.
And now, boy oh boy do I hear it. The back handed comments, the “sure this is good, but….” amendments to every sentence.
So, what do I do? These things feel a little glued on right now. So I’m going to focus on the small things. The things I can change. I’m going to break a pattern or two, ever so slightly.
Breaking patterns, even the smallest pattern, by the fewest of moments, means you can change the big things.
It’s a twist on the classic making your bed speech.
Hold off on picking up your phone for 20seconds once in the morning, then tomorrow you can wait 22; then 30; then a minute; then 5; then 15; then 30; then an hour; then longer.
Go to bed 1 minute earlier.
Get up 10 minutes earlier
Sit on the opposite side of the couch.
Instead of doing X – try doing Y, just once a day.
And when my patterns can change, hopefully the shit can crack a little, and a little more until it rolls away, and I can get to that happy-go-lucky look-on-the-bright-side-of-life kinda guy.
Oh ya – and I was inspired by Derek Sivers’s now page so, I have one too now.