I always believed that every man should at least have one vice. I am overachieving in this aspect. Recently, ok, this morning I woke up thinking about the myriad of bad habits I have and decided that a particular one has been stealing too many days of my life. I’m going to start trying to quit this one. I don’t think you ever manage to quit a bad habit. What actually happens is you just prolong the gap between slips until one day the gap is your whole life.
I remember this article on Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity secret - don’t break the chain.
So I’m going to start my own chain over here. I’ve started a spreadsheet. Each day that I do not slip up and engage in my bad habit, I’ll add a green cell. Each day I do slip up, is a red cell. The idea is that I must not break the green chain.
I’m putting it up here for everyone to see as a sort of public declaration that this is a habit I am determined to quit.
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