Nov from Irene - Changing a habit

 

More leafy vines for me to copy. On top of that, Irene has time to do Zentangles. I wonder if Irene would be willing to send us a schedule of everything she gets done in a week. I'm curious if she has someone who takes care of all the stuff that seems to eat up most of my time - grocery shopping, meals, chewing, cleaning up, laundry stuff, household maintenance...it's endless. Am I the only one who gets bogged down with the daily stuff?

Today we begin Step 2 in the new process of scheduling posts. I will post all of the exchange envelopes that arrive in November. From now on - it should be easy to figure out whether or not I have posted an image that pops up out of nowhere. Fingers crossed that this works. 

Well, that didn't last long. I do not have a system for posting images that pop up from other places. 

Back to the drawing board.

On Nov 17 after a day packed with errands, etc, I was exhausted at 5 pm and decided to work on the blog. I did a search that led me to a 2011 blog post - and I was dumbfounded at the lengthy (and rather silly/ridiculous things I used to talk about) I hesitate to even mention it - lest it encourages anyone to go back to see what I mean. Trust me-- don't go back. 

I've toyed with the idea of a new blog - that reposts things that are worth saving. I even checked and the name thisisworthsaving(at)blogspot(dot)com is available. I resisted the temptation to start such a blog. 

That book Atomic Habits - on how to actually change your habits for the better has had a profound impact on me. Not that I can remember exactly how -- I think it was just someone telling me that it was possible to change a habit. That might have been Step One. I have no idea where I heard this - but I think I heard that a huge part of people not escaping bad habits is that their baseline belief is that change is impossible.