After reading my number one favourite book of all time yet again – the Four Hour Work Week; I promised myself not to keep doing the same task multiple times the same day.
Albert Einstein famously said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing time and time again but expecting different results.He may well have been referring to scientific experiments but then again, Einstein also had a lot to say about life. I do know that Edison took over one thousand attempts to make the light bulb. I’m sure though that each?experiment?was different to the last.
How often have we set a goal or just decided to do something different, only to fall back into old habits? Today I found myself checking my various e-mail accounts three times each despite promising myself to stick to once per day. If I stay to once per day I can get so much more done from my ‘important to get done’ list.
I’m going to stick to it tomorrow. It will be hard but after repition, things become far easier. The hardest thing to do is break the pattern in the first place.
Paul Browning
Take control of the habit of repetition really adds up to efficiency.
It’s hard to break the pattern…just can’t stop it.
As the song title goes ‘You’re a Hard Habit to Break’
Tony
I think it’s human nature to repeat what we’ve done….like wars.
“Mind over Matter’. Once you make the decision to do something, and have pretty solid incentive to do so, you will be able to break the habit.
I heard that you have to do something for 21 days for it to become a habit. Although I don’t know how true that is.
If it was that easy, I would have lost my pregnancy weight years ago. LOL.
For me, checking email is a habit and also a bit of a compulsion. Sometimes I get so anxious to see if someone has gotten back to me, or perhaps initiated contact with me that I can’t help but check.
I do understand your point, though. Doing the same thing more than once a day does seem to be wasting time.