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weekly check-in #3, january 15th, 2011.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
Greetings, earthlings! Welcome to WEEK THREE of our amazing resolutions marathon. I'm
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So how has your week been? Good, bad, just ordinary? Are you working on your resolutions, and what have you been up to otherwise?
Take a deep breath, and let’s let each other know: how’s it going?
The question for this week is again taken from the Elements of Change, and it's about our dreaded foe, relapse:
Expect relapse — What might trigger a return to a former behavior?
Stumped? Some resources: What to do when your diet resolutions suffer from a relapse, or a PDF dealing with the same issues that's a little more general.
Feel free to answer in the comments, or if you would like to write a journal entry about it—go right ahead, just link it from the comments please.
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This is going to sound horrendously twee, but: "it's not failure until you give up."
Are there any tasks that can be broken up into still-smaller tasks? Like preparing a drawing for colouring as a subset of 'finishing a full picture'? Perhaps turn it into stages and complete those stages, rather than counting the project as a whole?
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Yeah, I try to do that - spending a bit of time on a resolution is better than nothing at all. So transferring the drawing to the watercolour pad counts as something (and today I started colouring!). I'm working on seeing the small steps instead of just the whole picture ^^.