"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Benjamin Franklin
Whitney
· 2 years ago
Dear Chris P- I hate to be a know it all, but the quote is Einstein not Ben Franklin.
Steve Woolf
· 2 years ago
Here's one I've lived the past 2 years by. It's done well for us:
"Do what you've always done and you'll get what you've always gotten."
I believe the quote is Anais Nin.
I love it because it works for good and for bad. I repeat it to myself on days like today as I juggle 2 jobs simultaneously...
Eryk
· 2 years ago
Chris - you just proved my wife right about me. Thanks a lot, lol. I have a habit of opening and closing and then re-opening the fridge door in the hope that something better will suddenly be in there waiting for me and my grumbling tummy.
Eryk
· 2 years ago
This topic is very important to me, actually. There are a lot of things I've wanted to do over the years and each and every year I fail at most of them. I can't seem to change the pattern and I don't know how to go about making it different. 1) Lose weight and gain muscle. Sure, simple enough. Diet and exercise. I know how to do both. I just don't seem to stick to it. 2) get my novel edited. I finished the blasted thing and have it halfway through the edit process...as it has been for about a year now. 3) get my t-shirt business up and running. I have some stock, but that's all (anyone wanna buy a t-shirt?) :) 4) Learn to play the $*@&! guitar...finally. It's only been 20 years since I fist became interested in learning it (I'm darn good at Guitar Hero 1 and 2 though) ;-) 5) Other Stuff(tm). I just really wish I knew how to change the bad habits. I believe one can not actually get rid of a bad habit, but instead can change the focus of that habit into something else, something better. It's sort of like fat cells. When can create more fat cells, but from what a few doctors have told me, you don't ever actually lose them when you lose weight. Instead, you alter their size by emptying them, which is why it is so easy to gain fat back once you've had it. Ah, I've strayed a bit here...anyhow...what is the best way to shake things up that does not rely on sheer willpower alone?
David Finch
· 2 years ago
Chris, thanks for kicking my butt on the 2nd of January.
"Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable." author unknown
chrisbrogan
· 2 years ago
Oh, I'm here for butt-kickings, David. : )
Eryk- The trick to it all lies in determining what TRULY matters most to you, and then setting up your life so that gets done. For instance, if playing guitar is important, lose the PS2. If starting a tee shirt business is important to you, cancel cable. If fitness is important, stop going to drive thru windows and start scheduling a 1/2 hour a day of exercise no matter what.
It is *always* in the realm of what you CHOOSE, not willpower.
Michael Bailey
· 2 years ago
Good advice Chris.
If one really wants something, then they make it happen.
A lot of times, we settle for things instead of taking the extra steps required to get what we really want.
It's easier to settle for a mundane cheeseburger and fries from a drive-thru, than it is to find a better place to eat.
We settle for the quick food, because we don't really want a good meal, we just want to make the hunger pains go away.
We don't always make the best decisions, but we certainly will make the easiest ones.
Now, if you are going to stay around here to kick our butts when we need it, then it will turn out to be a really good year.
Maybe it is because putting forth the 'extra' effort doesn't reward us with any sort of immediate response.
If I think about how many times that I started working out, I remember how many people that I told..."Hey, yeah, I started working out again."
Then for a few days I'll complain about how sore I am, and the next thing that I know, I'm no longer working out and nobody is asking me about it. The external reward is gone.
We need to turn those actions around, and do things which we know that we should do, and realize that the rewards might take 6 months or more to surface.
Sue
· 2 years ago
To David's Jan 2 note; the author for the quote "Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable" is Myles Munroe http://www.bfmmm.com/munroe.asp
All Comments
2006 was, "Hmm, I wonder if I can do this"
2007 is, "I can do whatever I want"
I hate to be a know it all, but the quote is Einstein not Ben Franklin.
"Do what you've always done and you'll get what you've always gotten."
I believe the quote is Anais Nin.
I love it because it works for good and for bad. I repeat it to myself on days like today as I juggle 2 jobs simultaneously...
I have a habit of opening and closing and then re-opening the fridge door in the hope that something better will suddenly be in there waiting for me and my grumbling tummy.
1) Lose weight and gain muscle. Sure, simple enough. Diet and exercise. I know how to do both. I just don't seem to stick to it.
2) get my novel edited. I finished the blasted thing and have it halfway through the edit process...as it has been for about a year now.
3) get my t-shirt business up and running. I have some stock, but that's all (anyone wanna buy a t-shirt?) :)
4) Learn to play the $*@&! guitar...finally. It's only been 20 years since I fist became interested in learning it (I'm darn good at Guitar Hero 1 and 2 though) ;-)
5) Other Stuff(tm).
I just really wish I knew how to change the bad habits. I believe one can not actually get rid of a bad habit, but instead can change the focus of that habit into something else, something better. It's sort of like fat cells. When can create more fat cells, but from what a few doctors have told me, you don't ever actually lose them when you lose weight. Instead, you alter their size by emptying them, which is why it is so easy to gain fat back once you've had it.
Ah, I've strayed a bit here...anyhow...what is the best way to shake things up that does not rely on sheer willpower alone?
"Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable." author unknown
Eryk- The trick to it all lies in determining what TRULY matters most to you, and then setting up your life so that gets done. For instance, if playing guitar is important, lose the PS2. If starting a tee shirt business is important to you, cancel cable. If fitness is important, stop going to drive thru windows and start scheduling a 1/2 hour a day of exercise no matter what.
It is *always* in the realm of what you CHOOSE, not willpower.
If one really wants something, then they make it happen.
A lot of times, we settle for things instead of taking the extra steps required to get what we really want.
It's easier to settle for a mundane cheeseburger and fries from a drive-thru, than it is to find a better place to eat.
We settle for the quick food, because we don't really want a good meal, we just want to make the hunger pains go away.
We don't always make the best decisions, but we certainly will make the easiest ones.
Now, if you are going to stay around here to kick our butts when we need it, then it will turn out to be a really good year.
Maybe it is because putting forth the 'extra' effort doesn't reward us with any sort of immediate response.
If I think about how many times that I started working out, I remember how many people that I told..."Hey, yeah, I started working out again."
Then for a few days I'll complain about how sore I am, and the next thing that I know, I'm no longer working out and nobody is asking me about it. The external reward is gone.
We need to turn those actions around, and do things which we know that we should do, and realize that the rewards might take 6 months or more to surface.