I didn’t post last week because there wasn’t anything to report and there’s only so much whining I can do about the restoration diet. I’m not adding any new books to this challenge until I finish working through the four I’m committed to at the moment (yes, four and no, I’m not sure how that happened–they just kind of snuck up on me):
So the question today is what, if anything, have I learned so far? Mostly I’ve learned that trying to replace bad habits with new ones is an uphill battle because bad habits are so ingrained as to be automatic. That’s hardly a newsflash for anyone who’s tried to make any kind of change in their life.
I’m still on the restoration diet (more or less, what with being human and all) from Total Renewal. I’m going to start the stricter elimination diet soon because I still have some issues (e.g. dark circles under my eyes) that are commonly food allergy related. That means I have to cut out nightshade vegetables from my diet (I don’t eat the other things on the Elimination diet though it does cover more than nightshade). In case you’re not familiar with the nightshade family it includes tomato, potato, eggplant and peppers.
So far we’ve found out that the other half has a mild gluten intolerance so gluten-free baking is now on my list of things to learn. We’ve also found out that I can’t tolerate ripened cheese even if it’s not cow’s cheese (I looooove cheese, darnit). So much for cheating using goat’s mozarella on gluten-free pizza.
I have started reading The Writing Diet but I haven’t managed to be very diligent in applying it. The first habit you’re supposed to cultivate is to write several pages about how you are feeling when you wake up in the morning. It’s intended to be a stream-of-consciousness sort of thing so you don’t need to use good grammar or complete sentences (or even complete thoughts). It’s a tool for accessing what you’re really thinking. I’ve done this before in writing classes and it does work well IF you do it diligently, which I haven’t been. I think I’ll wait until I manage to the morning writings regularly before I add anything else to my routine from this book.
I haven’t started doing the yoga routines from Yoga for Computer Users yet (I have lots of good intentions and no good excuses). I also haven’t started making a list of who I know for The Power of Who (You’re supposed to make a list of 100 people you already know who can help you get your dream job … I’ll be lucky if I can come up with 100 people that I keep in touch with, period). I have received leads on jobs these past two weeks from some unexpected people without even asking them so it does lend some credence to Bob Beaudine’s premise that you should rely on people who know you but may not be in the industry you want rather than people who don’t know you from a hole in the wall but are in the right industry.
I’ll try to stick to single book in subsequent updates so they won’t be as long and will maybe be more useful. And I swear I will try yoga this week. Really.
One step forward, two steps back
Note: These Friday posts are part of my Health & Fitness Read It, Live It, Blog It challenge to actually apply the advice in self-help books to my life and then let you know how it works (or doesn’t). Previous posts in this series.
I didn’t post last week because there wasn’t anything to report and there’s only so much whining I can do about the restoration diet. I’m not adding any new books to this challenge until I finish working through the four I’m committed to at the moment (yes, four and no, I’m not sure how that happened–they just kind of snuck up on me):
So the question today is what, if anything, have I learned so far? Mostly I’ve learned that trying to replace bad habits with new ones is an uphill battle because bad habits are so ingrained as to be automatic. That’s hardly a newsflash for anyone who’s tried to make any kind of change in their life.
I’m still on the restoration diet (more or less, what with being human and all) from Total Renewal. I’m going to start the stricter elimination diet soon because I still have some issues (e.g. dark circles under my eyes) that are commonly food allergy related. That means I have to cut out nightshade vegetables from my diet (I don’t eat the other things on the Elimination diet though it does cover more than nightshade). In case you’re not familiar with the nightshade family it includes tomato, potato, eggplant and peppers.
So far we’ve found out that the other half has a mild gluten intolerance so gluten-free baking is now on my list of things to learn. We’ve also found out that I can’t tolerate ripened cheese even if it’s not cow’s cheese (I looooove cheese, darnit). So much for cheating using goat’s mozarella on gluten-free pizza.
I have started reading The Writing Diet but I haven’t managed to be very diligent in applying it. The first habit you’re supposed to cultivate is to write several pages about how you are feeling when you wake up in the morning. It’s intended to be a stream-of-consciousness sort of thing so you don’t need to use good grammar or complete sentences (or even complete thoughts). It’s a tool for accessing what you’re really thinking. I’ve done this before in writing classes and it does work well IF you do it diligently, which I haven’t been. I think I’ll wait until I manage to the morning writings regularly before I add anything else to my routine from this book.
I haven’t started doing the yoga routines from Yoga for Computer Users yet (I have lots of good intentions and no good excuses). I also haven’t started making a list of who I know for The Power of Who (You’re supposed to make a list of 100 people you already know who can help you get your dream job … I’ll be lucky if I can come up with 100 people that I keep in touch with, period). I have received leads on jobs these past two weeks from some unexpected people without even asking them so it does lend some credence to Bob Beaudine’s premise that you should rely on people who know you but may not be in the industry you want rather than people who don’t know you from a hole in the wall but are in the right industry.
I’ll try to stick to single book in subsequent updates so they won’t be as long and will maybe be more useful. And I swear I will try yoga this week. Really.
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