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Did you ever notice that it’s only the habits you don’t want that seem to create themselves with little intention on your part?

The habits you really want to have in your life seem to take serious intentions, concentration and a lot of work to show even a fragile existence in your lifestyle. And even then, you take your eyes off them for a minute and… they are gone!

Why is that?

Seriously, why is that? ‘Cause I don’t know.

I know that I started a writing habit a couple of weeks ago, then entirely forgot to write anything yesterday. It never entered my mind even though it was on my daily reminders list.

I know that creating new habits is hard. Usually you need to put into place some supporting structure to make it stay. New habits are fragile and need scaffolding. Even then they often fail to firm up and stay put.

A more effective way of creating new habits is to replace something else. Maybe we can only use just so many habits at one time. This seems to be especially true when it comes to getting rid of bad habits. You can’t just quit, you have to replace.

So here’s a challenge. What’s one habit you either want to start or you want to quit? What’s your game plan?  How will you make it work? Give me your ideas in the comments below.

 
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Published on May 15, 2013, by in ramblings, Technology.

I’m a big “Matrix” fan. Yeah I know it’s just a movie but it offers some challenging ideas. 

At least in the first move. In reality the rest of the franchise was highly disappointing but didn’t diminish the brilliance of the first movie.

Anyway, I’m not talking about that today.

I’m simply writing to apologize because my post yesterday morning didn’t get published on time. I had finished the post, but somehow there was a glitch and it didn’t get published. With all my technical know-how and ability it still didn’t work. I probably forgot to push the publish button. :-)

EDIT: this post was supposed to go out on Wednesday and for some reason it didn’t either. Now I think there is a ‘conspiracy‘ going on.

Guess what?

That’s kinda how life it.

Sometimes you think you’ve got it all figured out but it still doesn’t work out right.

Life is more art than science. More experiment than formula. And no… there isn’t a glitch in the matrix.

It’s called living.

 
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Published on May 14, 2013, by in Personal, ramblings.

My oldest daughter sent me a text message this morning. Because I was in a meeting, and sometimes still consider it rude to ignore the person at the table with me so that I can send a text to someone who is not there, I didn’t reply to her text for about an hour.

In the meantime, she sent a second text. See image below. :-)

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Cheeky!

Especially if you read my post from yesterday.

But that’s kinda the way my kids are. They make fun of me when they can get away with it and even when they can’t.

I’m not talking about mean-spirited mockery or bullying. I’m talking about the good-natured love being together, having fun, doing life together teasing.

I always want to be the kind of guy who can laugh at himself. Even laugh with others at my humanities or was that humilities.

Don’t try so hard to be significant, instead work hard at being human. You’ll end up being significant to someone.