Just Another Year

It counts as success if I didn’t fail completely, right?

Christinchen — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:24:07 +0000

I did it! No really!

Today I went for a walk. One hour (Mainly because I kinda got lost, oh well…).

I got ready, took two jacket (because it’s still freezing here) and my hat and gloves and went outside.

The weather was really nice, the sun was shining, but it was only 5°C :( And I went on a trail in the woods near my house and it was really beautiful.

And tomorrow I need to catch up on my application writing since I kinda ditched that to scramble through the woods…

Right, positive thinking: I DID SOMETHING!

And while I’m talking about things that I did: I found a way to make myself drink more water and drink water instead of coke. Just add a slice of lemon to your glass and I drank a whole bottle this afternoon.

1, 2, 3, fail…

Christinchen — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:49:29 +0000

It’s only the third day of the new year and I’m already failing at my new years resolutions…

Or let me put it like that (since negative thinking was one of the things that I let go for the new year):
It’s already the third day of the new year and I’m have yet to get to actually make my new years resolutions happen.

I don’t know. It’s just too easy too keep all the old habits and to not change. Because we’re comfortable. Of course we are. Change takes effort and we have to actually get our butt off the sofa and get moving to do something.

But sometimes it’s not even that much for me. Today I was thinking about something I read online on someone’s blog. It was a post about how to change your life in small steps. One of the things it said was to take a different route to work, just a slight detour and you’ll see new things, discover places you never knew about before.

And you know what it got me thinking off? There’s this place just off the road I take to uni every day, I never noticed it until I read about it on a geocaching website. There’s this small clearing where they planted those huge, huge trees form the US (Mammoth Trees? I’m not sure what they are called in English, Wikipedia was extremely unhelpful).

I read about them about half a year ago. And I’ve never gone to see them. All it would take me to do so is pull over on that road and walk a few meters into the forest.

Today I drove by again and again I didn’t pull over. Why? Because there was a car behind me and I felt stupid pulling over in the middle of nowhere.

It’s just always stupid and small things like that that keep us from doing the things we want.

I mean really, what would it matter if a car in front of you pulls over in the middle of nowhere and stops. You’d think their phone rang or that they’re going to pee behind a bush or something.

Part of this one class I took was about psychology. And we learned about this study that show that if a person asks us for directions on this streets for example that we won’t recognize their face. They actually had someone “bump” into the person and then exchange the asker and the person didn’t notice. Not even if they changed even skin colors or sex.

It takes us two seconds of inattention to completely forget a random persons face.

So why, WHY would it matter what someone, we don’t even know thinks?

I shouldn’t. Not one bit!

Goals and Plans

Christinchen — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:55:07 +0000

Did I mention I’m good at making lists? Well, this morning I made my list of new years resolutions. I find it helps to write them down. Not just so I can’t talk my way out of one in a couple of weeks, but also that I won’t forget about one or that I can go back and see the progress I made with some and the progress I didn’t make with others.

My new years resolutions:

Drink a glass of water every morning.
Meditate.
Eat healthier and less ready made meals.
Tidy my room once a month.
Start learning for my exams head of time (not the day before), make a learning schedule (one month) and stick to it.
Go for a walk or the swimming pool once a week.
Do something/go somewhere by myself for myself once a week (i.e. cinema, dinner, shopping, sightseeing, hot bath, massage, …)
Read a book or watch a movie in the evening instead of working on stuff right up till I go to bed.
Do one exercise every night before going to bed.
Go on a vacation.

Letting go…

Christinchen — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:36:30 +0000

For me this new year is about a new start, changing things and mostly finding my way in life.
So for the new year one of my resolutions was to let all the old fears and frustrations go.

This morning I did just that.

I wrote all the things that I wanted to let go on pieces of paper and then I burned them. You have no idea how freeing this felt!

I hope you had a wonderful start in the new year!

Lists

Christinchen — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:33:12 +0000

A few days ago I sat down and started writing a list. 100 Things I want to do in my life.

Now, the thing is: I like lists because they help me visualize what I need to do, get a plan of how to get things done into my head. I like lists, I’m good at making lists.

But: I’m not good at getting all the stuff that is on a list done. I can write down 100 things I want to do and not do a single one.

But this isn’t the only list I have. I have a list of places I want to travel to. Well, more than one really: One for Germany, one for Europe, and one for the rest of the world.

And there’s also a much less exciting list of companies I should apply to because I need an internship by march.