Continuing New Habits

            Summer is almost over, which means now my new habits will be put to the ultimate test: College. Will I be able to keep up writing for an hour, thirty minutes of yoga, and a blog post every week? So far I have my doubts, especially given the fact that this is my second late post. While this semester only has 15 credits, it does have 2 jobs. By the time the next blog post occurs, it will be the weekend before school starts. The question remains how to I keep new habits going? Definitely, I will have to stay focused, in order to keep on top of homework and still save time for writing. The only way I will be able to keep in yoga is if I do it first thing in the morning. This summer has been good practice for that, because if I am able to wake up in time to get to class at 8, which is approximately thirty minutes away from my house, I should be able to wake up in time to complete yoga and then go to my class.  I have been waking up consistently at 6, which should give me enough time to do half an hour of yoga, get ready and walk to my class at 8.

            Generally, I have seen that if I can keep up the habit of writing for an hour everyday, I will remember to post on the blog. When I start allowing myself to fall behind in writing an hour per day, I quickly forget about my blog. So now the question is how do I keep writing an hour everyday? Limiting the number of times I am distracted will greatly help me save enough time for writing. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard it said both that there’s not enough time in the day and that it isn’t that we don’t have time for something, but that we didn’t make enough time. At first glance those statements appear to be in direct conflict with one another. However, the fact of the matter is that both are true. We don’t have enough time in the day to not stay focused and still be able to accomplish everything that we want to accomplish. So the question isn’t as much do I have time it’s do I have something I am willing to give up in order to clear time. I think limiting how many times I check reddit in a day will make it easier for me to clear time for writing. Also if playing the game 2048 on my phone doesn’t distract me, then I will have more time as well. A quick check of the batter statistics on my phone shows that in the past 24 hours 43% of my phone battery has gone to 2048, and 15% of my battery has gone to reddit. Today alone I spent more than 40 minutes playing 2048, which would be fine, if I didn’t also want to write.

            Restarting regular college as well as my jobs will mean less time, but keeping my new habits going is possible if I make the time.