Comments on: Break your habits

By: Lesley

Lesley — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:44:19 +0000

Heidi! Thanks for your comment. I love your honesty. I want to come over with Katie and take a nap in your piles of clothes.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:41:09 +0000

Loved this post! My habit that needs to break is how messy our bedroom gets. I do a decent job of keeping the rest of the house clean but struggle with our room. It is mostly clothes and I need to reorganize and purge so that clothes are not taking over our room. It is clean clothes, dirty clothes, clothes that need to go to dry cleaners, clothes that the boys took off in our room, clothes I am remembering to give to the housecleaner next week, scrubs from the hospital dan needs for surgeries, clothes that don’t fit me now but will once I lose some more baby fat, clothes that are now too big but will be nice for the beginning stages of pregnancy when I just look like I’ve gained 10 lbs, clothes that don’t fit Logan anymore, and clothes that will fit Logan in a few weeks. Katie came over awhile ago and walked back to our room and even asked if we were moving. I am going to change this habit and this post motivated me!

By: Ashlee

Ashlee — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:06:52 +0000

I love this post Lesley. It’s so true! My horrible habit is waking up every morning and checking my phone. I check my e-mail, from bed, before I do anything else. I think I partly do it to procrastinate peeling myself out of bed, but it’s definitely a habit I’m looking to break. I spend all day sitting on the computer responding to e-mails….there is no reason why it should be the first thing I see when I wake up!

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:42:23 +0000

this is really funny because I am taking a break from frozen yogurt…to break my habit of craving it every day and eating it at least once a week …serious.

By: Alysun

Alysun — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:09:31 +0000

Ooh, good post. I’m working on breaking a very bad habit. Not quite ready to share it with the world. But I think I might be changing my world by breaking this one. Thanks for inspiring.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:49:44 +0000

I hope writing is never ever ever a habit you break. Just love this post, since I’m a freak of nature/creature of habit too. It took moving to Phoenix to break my green/pasta salad lunch from the Gelson’s salad bar every single day — and only because Gelson’s doesn’t exist (and quite frankly, Whole Foods is so not as cool as it thinks it is). Maybe I’ll stop for some fro-yo tonight

By: Corinne

Corinne — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:32:34 +0000

I would say that habits, what kind and how strong of a hold they have on us and how we feel towards them, are likely strongly affected by personality. Of course it differs individual to individual… but as far as daily patterns and habits go, I don’t like them and I never find myself in one for too long. It’s rare that I realize I’m doing something the same way I did it last time or yesterday. I think that has a lot to do with being P and also F. Your post sounds quite J to me… it also sounds like the post of a diligent and healthy and very successful person.

My problem is my difficulty in 1) getting INTO habits, like taking vitamins every day or making sure do stuff like housecleaning regularly enough. I hate doing things daily, I dislike repetition. And 2) getting out of chronic lifestyle habits that aren’t exactly daily actions…always being 5 minutes late and not being the greatest at calling people back. I’d love to get out of, and it would probably take creating new regular habits, these “Corinne-isms.”