If You Woke Up Tomorrow With A Habit Gone, Which One Would It Be?

Okay, another wonderfully tough one. I guess I like to punish myself, but it says the problem for today is, or this episode is, if you woke up tomorrow with a habit gone, what would it be? Oh, my goodness, let’s see. I like to think I’ve gotten rid of the big ones, but I’ll do a couple really quickly. I guess number one is, it seems like when I need my guilt-free play, and I go over to video games or something like that, after the day’s work is done or whatever, I have absolutely no problem staying up until 2:30 in the morning to finish up just the next level, or whatever.

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But, when it comes down to work on extra or new projects or extra stuff that’s business related, it’s a whole lot harder to convince myself to say up past one. Yes, yes, I know the whole sleep thing, and it sounds crazy to people since I wake up about 6:30 anyway, but I would really like to be able to get in the habit of greater focus. I guess that’s what I’m getting at, greater focus and attachment to the longer term view of what it is I’m doing.

Another one would be to be more patient and understanding of what I currently perceive as interruptions in whatever I am focused on an activity or a business related task. I’ve got a lot better, but I still get that feeling of grumpiness or standoffishness when somebody or something interrupts my train of thought. Sometimes it could even be my wife or my kids, and I’m not yelling at them or anything, but just looking back at it, it’s not the way I want to respond, so I’d like to fix that too.

Finally, because it’s semi-weird and I don’t really understand it. I mean, I’ve read some psychology books that have referenced reasons why it happens, but it just doesn’t ring a bell with me. And that is, if I sit at my desk, just totally relaxed pose, shoes off, socks off, if there’s a real deep thinking moment, I’ve got to touch my toes or something or I want to clip my nails, or just do something with my digits.

I know it’s partly because I do have a kinesthetic learning preference in some arenas of thinking and tasks that I do, but not nearly all of them. I’m more of an auditory, visual, so it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. I mean I found a solution to just put some socks on and that takes the problem away, but I’d like to get rid of that one too, or at least understand if it’s a deeper rooted habit by some other cause. Mind stuff.

So that’s it for me. What about yourself? What habit would you like to be gone tomorrow, just poof, like that? And why aren’t you working on it? Think about it, do some tough ones. Start changing. It’s worth it.