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

[erika]

"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 erika, this is resolving, and here, in this very entry (!) is your check in post for this week.

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?

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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.

Comments

[tielan]

*hugs*

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?

[flowerstar]

*hugs* Thank you! I think that's a good saying, twee or not :). And I'm not giving up!

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 ^^.