Deadweight has been Lifted

Monday: Went to see Leslie at the Library, volunteered and talked for 3 hours. Hopped a train than a bus and went to Lakeview to take my Belly Dancing class.Read My Hips is the name of the group. After the class I spoke with the instructor for 2 hours. Went to Walgreens and got food and went home. I was out for 12 hours straight.

Wednesday: Went to check out an apartment, it was in a really good location but it wasn't even a room, it was a one bedroom and I would live in the common area, the whole place made me claustrophobic. Next I realized how close I was to Beatnix and dropped off my resume hopefully they call.


Lightworker Syndrome by Steve Pavlina

30 DAY CHALLENGE
A few pieces of advice for those courageous souls who are taking the 30-day challenge:

1) Focus on actions, not results. It’s easier to guarantee that you exercise every day vs. trying to lose a certain amount of weight. It’s easier to guarantee that you write for an hour vs. finishing a page of text. Of course you want to select actions that you feel will give you positive results, but the main point of this challenge is to condition a new habit or to decondition a bad habit. In the long run, it’s the habit that will produce results.

2) Make it specific and measurable. Be specific in how you describe your new daily action such that an independent observer who watched you could say with complete certainty whether or not you succeeded. If your new habit is to “eat more fruits and vegetables,” that’s too vague. “Eat at least 5 six-ounce servings of fruit or vegetables each day” is better. It’s easier to succeed when you have a specific target; you’re more likely to fall off course when the target is too general. You need to know with total certainty whether you hit your target each day — don’t allow any room for rationalizations. Make it binary. Either you hit the bullseye or you didn’t.

3) Don’t give up. If you miss your target one day, start over at day 1 with the goal of making it further on your second attempt.

4) Expect to succeed. Intend and expect that you’ll make it through the whole 30 days and will share your success story on May 20. In fact, go ahead and intend for everyone doing this to succeed. Sometimes people get better results with a group than they do with individual efforts.