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Yes, I’m back. Hopefully, for good. 
I’ve been mostly focused on another subject recently, but it’s time to restart my self-improvement… as there’s currently a lot to improve, and life hasn’t been good. But it’s important to keep a positive attitude, and, most importantly, a sense of humor, right?
So, for the past couple of days, I’ve been thinking about a way to not only start developing and improving myself again, but also to “liven up” this blog. The first problem was the hardest: I tend to be very lazy, and it’s hard for me to keep doing something for a very long while without getting bored, so quicker results and variety are a must. Also, tackling a lot of areas at once, coming from a long period of doing nothing about them, doesn’t usually work. “Baby steps” are often a better way.
The plan I came up with is this: each week I will introduce a change (for the better, of course) in my life. Sticking with something for just a week is easy. The trick is that in the following week, when I introduce another change (probably in a completely different area), I will stick to the first change as well — though the new one will be the main focus of that week.
Changes I’ve already thought about, in no particular order:
- Don’t drink alcohol except on social occasions (and no, dining at my family’s doesn’t count as one here)
- Meet at least one new person
- Go vegan for a day or two each week
- Fast for a day or two each week
- Exercise at least 5-10 minutes each day
- Read a book not from my usual genres (a week should be more than enough)
- Look at everyone in the eyes when talking (harder for me than it sounds)
- Make sure my home ends up tidier and cleaner after each day of the week (much saner than spending an entire day or two doing nothing but that)
- Go to some new place and explore it a bit (difficult at the moment due to lack of money, but eventually possible)
- Do something each day to try to increase the money earned from my sites
- Find (and put in practice) a new way of spending less money, either for the week or for the entire month
- Do some kind of “good deed” each day, however minor — not to gain something from it (and certainly not for supernatural reasons, as I’m 100% atheist), but simply to make the world a (slightly) better place
- Seek out friends and family (perhaps a different one each day) without any ulterior reasons (note that I consider “enjoying their company” an ulterior reason, which doesn’t mean it’s a bad one)
- and more…
Again, these are just ideas I’m throwing around; don’t think of the above as some kind of “checklist”. I may use some of them, not use others, and add new ones.
I’m also going to avoid being too “rigid”; I’ll stick to the first week of every change no matter what, but if it proves too difficult afterwards, I may put that particular change on hold after that week, though with the intention of trying again later. Still, this should be the exception, not the rule.
Post about the first weekly change (which has already started, this monday) coming next…
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