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Jan. 6th, 2012 11:16 amI've kinda gotten used to this three-day weekend thing. Adjusting to the normal schedule of the coming week is gonna suck. We get one more three-day weekend for MLK day, though, and I'm going to take at least the Monday of my birthday week off. So...three three-day weekends in January? Not bad.
And very necessary since I won't get another vacation opportunity until March. After that, I won't get a chance for more than one or two days off at a time because once April hits, I'm into my second-busiest time of year (at least as far as my Real Job is concerned). Come May, things are coming down to crunch-time for the CSSF Summer stuff, and then June and July is the CSSF Summer stuff, then the new grad students get here in August. September and October are a blur because of KCRF and then whoa it's November and application season starts up again and then it is 2013 Holy Shit People This Is My Life.
O_O
At least I get to leave work at the end of the day and rarely do I take anything home. Very Good.
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ms_danson posted an inspiring notion yesterday that I'd like to share with my circle here:
"Practicing the skills I want to have."
The skills in question are people skills and emotional management skills. I've been trying to avoid reacting and switch my mind into the meta-game mental space of "how would I act if I had these skills". This changes things around a bit. Instead of thinking "you fucking bastard" and just getting angry or acting out; I think "what outcome do I want" and "how do I act in order to encourage this outcome".
To make it clear: this is a brain hack I'm doing on myself to change my own behaviour to something more desirable to me.
Isn't that a great way to approach something you don't really want to do? It goes along well with the idea that willpower is a muscle that we can use only as much as it's exercised appropriately. With that in mind, I am going to start pretending that I am a full-time professional dancer and behaving as such. Well, you know. To a point. I'll skip the anorexia and chain-smoking (delightful as that might sound). But choosing to exercise before indulging in evening wine? Mostly, yes. Saying no to fruit--which I know causes insulin spikes and weight gain? Mostly, yes.
New approach to self-improvement: Go!
I love how the tags to this entry are paired opposites.
And very necessary since I won't get another vacation opportunity until March. After that, I won't get a chance for more than one or two days off at a time because once April hits, I'm into my second-busiest time of year (at least as far as my Real Job is concerned). Come May, things are coming down to crunch-time for the CSSF Summer stuff, and then June and July is the CSSF Summer stuff, then the new grad students get here in August. September and October are a blur because of KCRF and then whoa it's November and application season starts up again and then it is 2013 Holy Shit People This Is My Life.
O_O
At least I get to leave work at the end of the day and rarely do I take anything home. Very Good.
ms_danson posted an inspiring notion yesterday that I'd like to share with my circle here:"Practicing the skills I want to have."
The skills in question are people skills and emotional management skills. I've been trying to avoid reacting and switch my mind into the meta-game mental space of "how would I act if I had these skills". This changes things around a bit. Instead of thinking "you fucking bastard" and just getting angry or acting out; I think "what outcome do I want" and "how do I act in order to encourage this outcome".
To make it clear: this is a brain hack I'm doing on myself to change my own behaviour to something more desirable to me.
Isn't that a great way to approach something you don't really want to do? It goes along well with the idea that willpower is a muscle that we can use only as much as it's exercised appropriately. With that in mind, I am going to start pretending that I am a full-time professional dancer and behaving as such. Well, you know. To a point. I'll skip the anorexia and chain-smoking (delightful as that might sound). But choosing to exercise before indulging in evening wine? Mostly, yes. Saying no to fruit--which I know causes insulin spikes and weight gain? Mostly, yes.
New approach to self-improvement: Go!
I love how the tags to this entry are paired opposites.