Failure.
Past two days been thinking about failure and trying again. About how each time I quit smoking and start again, it’s easier to quit the next time. How people are demoralized by failures to stick w/ a new program, but how repeated attempts may be the best way to achieve something. So, in the past I’ve described your emotional balance as cartesian plane, and if you make a sudden change, you will suffer a correction that puts you below your previous floor (lower limit). Solution: small, sustainable steps. But when I enacted this plan over a year ago, I found it depressing. Why? Something about admitting that I had to take these small steps because I was unable to handle larger changes emotionally…programmatic and bleak. I have been stuck in this basic situation for about a year. But I read about this bicyclist who was very talented but who was not winning races because of anxiety problems. What he did to fix the problem was to treat his anxiety and the activities that alleviated anxiety like a budget; he tried to zero out his balance every two weeks or so. He would rate his anxiety, and give a score to anxiety-alleviating activities. I thought about how behaviors are like colors on a color wheel, and how each one has a complementary color, that will be most effected if you change the value of one color. Also it is like a DCS, how if you change one set-point, other values will change. How you have an equilibrium, and a degree of homeostasis, and if you decrease or increase one side, you must do it to he other (like on the color wheel). For example, if you have fear and anxiety, if you simply decrease this, you may find that this served to make you do a good job at work and at home, and if you are not carefully to increase your sense of responsibility to work and your relationships, they will suffer as you fear less. Also, standards vs. exceeding standards, how if you increase your standards, this causes anxiety for you to meet them; if you exceed your standards, you feel great, but soon start to suffer ennui, superiority, boredom, and you slip back into old habits. But if you fail repeatedly, and repeatedly try again, these symptoms can subside, especially if you practice kaizen and ask yourself what were the major causes of your last failure, and how you can correct them. This line of thought was largely brought about due to the recent success of my time managment. But it is tough to say how much of my recent success managing my time is because I was able to work on the technique at work, where I have motivation to do a good job.
somethingorginalandwitty:
I don’t understand how so many tumblr users are against this death. If this man had been killed ten years ago, you all would be celebrating his death. If Gaddafi was killed tomorrow, you all would be celebrating his death. Do all of you really think that Osama Bin Laden was only responsible for…
99 problems but bin laden aint one
