http://oldtricksnewdog.com/index.htmlPutting simple habits into practiceenoldtricksnewdog@gmail.comCopyright 2008 OTND2008-02-17T09:57:47-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:17:47 -0500oldtricksnewdog@gmail.comHabits2008-02-17T09:57:47-05:00http://oldtricksnewdog.com/files/4c3988ac7b6f64c8da2618e413df153f-17.html#unique-entry-id-17http://oldtricksnewdog.com/files/4c3988ac7b6f64c8da2618e413df153f-17.html#unique-entry-id-17Another week of doing the plan of attack. I am doing fine with the planning. If you have read up to this point you know I am picking only 3 things to off of a master collection list of possible items. This week I had a a little more of the same problem as before. I would picks 3 things but then I couldn't do all 3 of them usually because they involved other people.

The good side of this is that I seem to always be the one who is ready to do the job. It has always been the other person who couldn't follow through. I am not picking things that are knowingly un-accomplishable either. These are tasks that are set to occur on that date anyway. The bad side is that even if I go as far as I can with the task, if I don't actually finish it I can't really cross it iff my daily list and it really heads back to the master list. That doesn't make the master list smaller and I get no positive feelings about it.

Since my over goal is to change my habits I am not too worried about this. I am pretty happy that I am still going. IIf things need to be tweaked than I will tweak them. It is my life I am trying to change so I think I have the time to work on things.

The biggest hurdle is that I am going on a 2 week vacation where I will not be doing a plan of attack. I will be getting back in the first days of March so I am not sure if grabbing a new habit is the way to go. I am cheating myself out of a full month of habit building on this first item as it is. If I do go for a new goal it will have to be something simple. Possibly just an extension of this first habit.

Yeah, I think that is a good idea. Habit #1 was to make a plan of attack and then incidentally I picked the 3 most important tasks to put into place. I will make accomplishing those 3 things the habit. Since finishing all of the 3 things has been the problem this week I will need to work on an alternative plan that makes things ok if I can't finish it due to circumstances.]]>