It’s been well over a year since my first posts and I feel the need to pick-up where I started, but, of course, this time see some goals all the way through. In light of that, here’s five things you should know about me:
- I have a very difficult time committing to building positive habits. I usually have the enthusiasm to begin something – the excitement that comes with envisioning where you could be if you changed just this one thing. That excitement carries me over for a couple of days, maybe even a week if I’m lucky, but then I lose traction. I start to feel that the change feels like work and I give up. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that I don’t do the change long enough for it to feel natural. It does take a lot of willpower though.
- I’m a perfectionist or at least I try to be, sadly, even for the most mundane things (e.g., making my bed). This relates to starting things and sticking with them long enough to form a habit because once I ‘mess up,’ I feel the need to start all over again, rather than just continue onward. A great analogy to this would be one cheat snack turning into one cheat meal to one cheat day, so forth, deciding I will start eating healthy ‘tomorrow.’ Yet, it happens again and again, and basically I never actually start doing anything. Then, I feel regret for not starting sooner and I drown my feelings in a tub of ice cream.
- I’m a slow person. What does that even mean? It means that given a physical task, I would probably take twice as long as the average person would. I’m efficient in some things, usually mental functions, but as soon as I have to use other muscles or limbs, I operate at half that speed. Half of it has to do it with energy levels and the other half has to do with my fitness levels…quite literally, my body slows me down.
- I’m analytical = I overthink EVERYTHING. My thoughts are non-stop and I’m pretty sure because my attention is easily diverted, I go in ten different directions at one time. I tend to focus on researching, making a to-do list, etc., instead of actually doing things. I’ve been classified as a “be-er” before, not a “do-er.” You can imagine though that being a perfectionist + slow + analytical means I can get overwhelmed or exhausted easily.
- I am not a morning person. Again very cyclical, but I don’t know if this has to do more with my circadian rhythm or that I don’t manage to have a night routine down pat. Not being a morning person can be a disadvantage because my job/schedule requires me to get up early, and most of the times, I get up feeling drained and that gets carried throughout the day. I’m basically a slug!
Those are my core ‘negative’ qualities that I need to work on. Not necessarily get rid of, but embrace and work around. I plan on setting challenges that’ll allow me to slowly experiment with what I can change and what I just need to accept…at the end of the day, I need to try. Keep with me, and let’s see what we can get done! 🙂
30 Day Life Challenges 