I am a great advocate and proponent for the power of habit. I have significant personal experience of how habit can help and harm in the course of a person’s life. For example, the bad habit I had of smoking a great deal of strong cigarettes on a daily basis for many years. And the… Continue reading Habits need to be kept under constant review-“what’s it for?”
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The secret to the power of habit-making a decision once
I go for a run every evening when I come home from work. It would usually be between 5 pm and 6 pm and I am known to be brutally predictable and reliable in going for the run. Regardless of what the weather is like, I am going for my run. This week we had… Continue reading The secret to the power of habit-making a decision once
The power of habit, organisation, standard operating procedures and obsessive compulsive disorder
One of the girls in the office-Josephine-suggested not too long ago that I had obsessive compulsive disorder. She said it half-jokingly but like most ‘half joking’ remarks there was probably a grain of truth in the observation. My daughter, Lisa, is a primary school teacher and we have often discussed autism and ‘being on the… Continue reading The power of habit, organisation, standard operating procedures and obsessive compulsive disorder
The power of habit
I’m in my home office. It’s Sunday morning, early. I get up at 5 am. I am flitting between the kitchen and my office. In the kitchen I have a couple of nice sourdough loaves baked. I have one more plain white loaf to bake and I am waiting for it to prove and stick… Continue reading The power of habit
The 1 Thing I Have Learned from Losing 3.5 Stone
From August 2018 to date, April 2019, I have lost 3.5 stone weight. And the most important thing I have learned from the exercise has not been about the food I eat or the exercise I take. No, these things are important, alright, but they are not the most important thing. The most important thing… Continue reading The 1 Thing I Have Learned from Losing 3.5 Stone