New Year - New Habits

01/02/2012 – Day 1
Waking up at 5am wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Waking up to “Come to my window” by Melissa Ethridge, is proving to be a more challenging task since I can’t seem to stop the single line from her song from looping over and over in my head.
Even after 20 minutes of Pilates, (yes, I said Pilates…pipe down!), I am still singing the oh-so-catchy, “Come to my window….come inside, wait by the light of the moon. Come to my window. I’ll be home soon.” The funny thing with a song that’s stuck in your head is that it never finishes. Over and over the same few words keep playing. And just when you realize that you’ve stopped, BAM! It’s back again!

Have you ever had those days where your brain creates a sound track for each seemingly insignificant event by pulling random songs from the vast jukebox in your mind? Stuck in traffic on the way to work and there’s Dave Matthews singing to me…”traffic jam, got more cars than a beach got sand…” You step into the elevator next to the hot new intern and Steven Tyler chimes in with, “Love in an elevator…love in it up, when I’m goin down. “ Then for some strange reason, after saying good morning to your overweight, cigarette smelly, cranky, I’m-not-a-morning-person, boss, Eric Clapton serenades with, “darling, you look wonderful tonight…”
Seriously! Who’s pulling the strings in my head!? I know I wouldn’t chose this
playlist from my ipod ever, and most definitely not for the super-B that is my
boss!

You ever wonder if someone somewhere is following you around messing with you. Maybe the ghost of a kid you picked on in grade school who recently died is finally getting his payback. That explains a lot. I like that explanation actually. All you, “Law of Attraction” freaks out there can bite me. You wanna know why I spilled my coffee, got cut off on the freeway, stepped in gum, called my new co-worker the wrong name, and got a virus on my computer first thing Monday morning? Fucking ghost’s ok! I’ve got the ghost of that fat kid who ate paste in 1st grade following my around making my life a living hell! Think positive my ass…I’m positive that I need an exorcism.

Ok, back to reality….whoa, I just totally had a crazy, ADHD, I-think-I’m-Dane-Cook, moment there. I know right?

So the New Year is here and it’s 6:15am on Monday, January 02, 2012. I’m writing what I hope to be the first of many blog posts, mainly for my own entertainment and to track myself and my new goals and habits. If you like them, great! I’m just hoping I can stay accountable to myself long enough to actually create the new habits.

Habit#1 – Get up at 5am, each day.
There’s no sense thinking I’m a night owl, staying up late to “work” on stuff, only to fall asleep while reading the latest conspiracy theory or apocalypse hype. It’s time to get focused and create a habit that has a purpose.

Habit#2 – Exercise daily.
Now that I’m up at 5am, I should have 30 minutes for some form of morning exercise. Today it was Pilates that included flexibility and sculpting. I need some more flexibility in my life. I mean hell, have you tried touching your toes lately? Yea…I thought so.

Habit#3 – Write every day.
I love to write and people have told me that I have a knack for it. (Whatever that means) So here it is, the first of many posts intended to get the writer inside awake from his/her hibernation and get my creative juices flowing. Uh-oh, I think I just made a Freudian manage a trois reference to myself.

Well, there’s the list. Seems simple enough, and with any luck, I’ll have the new habits engrained into my life in about a month. Then I can add more to the list and see what happens.


"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." --- Mahatma Gandhi