Keeping Up The Pace All Alone With Your Thoughts

I was all excited last week to reach 52 weeks of posts that the little voice in my head told me that I could skip this week. But unfortunately, "that is not entirely correct," I told myself. So I said I could miss last week but that since I had already written the post, I might as well keep up the pace.  I had no idea how to start the blog; I got the basics from Ali Abdaal.  It was frustrating, but I figured it out.  Keeping up the pace is now routine.  

My personal rule about skipping things in to not do it two times in a row.  Sometimes I will double down to catch up but missing once at something is ok as long as you don't do it twice.  I create routines for everyday that don't vary much from week to week.  I find that I get side tracked by other obligations often.  I make an effort to accommodate and evaluate my habits to make sure they're meeting my needs and that the results are worth  the effort.  

I was listening to a podcast by Rob Dial this week. He cited a study that asked people if they were given a choice between getting shocked or sitting alone with their thoughts, which would take. The results were shocking. 30% of women would take the shock, and 60% of men. I was surprised because I spent most of my day in my head. It seems to me almost as much time as I spend walking the dog. Rob's take on the disinterest in being alone with our thoughts is a fear of what ideas might come up. He suggests we take every opportunity to get time alone with our thoughts. All I could think of was John Lithgow playing an '80s movie villain who is partial to self-electrocution. "There is nothing like a little electricity to makes the ganglia twitch."

I agree with Rob. That spending time alone with our thoughts is a good idea. You can do a meditation practice or journal about how you feel as two easy choices to accomplish the time alone.  I do my introspection in the morning before I get too involved with other activities that are distracting.