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Zenhabits, an amazing site to help you improve your life, has an excellent article on 7 Habits to Change Your Life - And How to Form Them! I am going to go over the 7 steps, as I prepare for my public procrastination challenge (for myself). You should check out these habits too!

Before:
1) Do a 30-day challenge focusing on just ONE habit.
2) Write, on paper (or computer?)-> motivations, obstacles, and strategies to overcome them.
3) Commit fully- in a public way. Then log your progress. And then keep it public so you remain publicly accountable- report on your progress.
4) You’ll need support for when you falter- in real life, or online (I wonder if I’ll have any online support hmmm).
5) Reward every little success (I like that idea!).
6) If you fail, figure out what went wrong, plan for it, and try again.

So far I have the idea, and some of the background written out, but I’ll have to put up a whole written thing on my motivations and obstacles. Then I need to get more support. But I’m making it public right now.

Now for the 7 tips:

1) Develop positive thinking- something I strive for, and I do on occasion, but, alas, it’s tough. Positive thinking, moving forward, focusing on the half-full part of the glass. I must keep it going, and I know that it’s almost like rolling a ball uphill, but it can roll. Rolling a ball downhill is negative thinking- it’s easy, and it gains and gains. But uphill? You have to work, and it can roll after all…You see?
2) Exercise- DONE! I hadn’t been exercising for years besides walking and I recently started working out twice a week and it’s been great! I run and lift, and I know the only reason I’ve been keeping with it is my workout buddy!!
3) Single-tasking- aka the opposite of multiple tasking. I am a crazy multiple tasker and that’s part of the bad procrastination. I must focus and finish. One. Thing. At. A. Time.
4) Focus on one goal- procrastinating is vague and large, but if I fine-tune my thoughts and goals here (which I will honestly in a few hours when I get home), then, I can focus on changing my habits there.
5) Eliminate the non-essential. This one is great. Recently I started changing a bunch of email preferences so I get most of my important mail in one account. I could do it in A LOT of areas- so I’ll take number 4’s advice and focus and finish in each area I think of that I can eliminate non-essentials.
6) Kindness- yeah yeah. I guess I could work on this one.
7) Daily routine- this will probably get easier naturally as I progress through my first year in the teaching world, but I know that I must do my part to establish a regular eating, sleeping, email-checking, planning, working out, and RELAXATION time!

Check out their article, as mine is discombobulated and I like to confuse things. I really like their ideas, and I’ll get back to you about the details of my Personal Procrastination Challenge.

…i’d probably just cry a river, and i wouldn’t be saving myself any time. valuable, precious time.

but i’m frustrated because i’m not getting what i need for planning my teaching.

that said, to be a positive thinker- at least i have some of the resources i need. it could be much worse if i was in a public inner-city school.

eh, what can you do. cry. no. not productive enough.

just do. relax and breathe. maybe.

and then, whether i want it or not, time will pass.

Take cover peeps! They’re spraying near and far and it might come get you or your baby!

Read up on the areas on your local news online channel, or read about DEP to Conduct Aerial Mosquito Treatment or any other googling product.

Most importantly : Telepathic Giraffe Tells Us It Like It Is ! and shares my dinner in the midst.

Gotta love a delicious vegan hoagie and steamed kale and raw food pad thai. Health factors!!!

Here I am hangin with my whole-wall projector tv screen machine.

Do you really need any more reasons to believe that my new apartment is simply the best?

it’s sad how they money system in america works. money sucks (causes problems) all over the world, but it’s really sad for me to think about how much teachers do get paid versus what they should get paid. and a lot of professions for that matter. and then i think about iraq and the gazillions of dollars the people in hierarchy over me are wasting like water.

i would do this, i would do that, if i had the money.

i am happy to have a decent job this year monetarily, but it still won’t get me anywhere near out of debt. i have credit card debt (boo! the worst!!) and oodles of school loan debt (payin until i’m decayin’)

but heck. you only live once! wellllllll i do need to live more frugally. the key is now that i’m making a little bit more money, i need to save it, and pay off the right things.

woh is that ol’ stuff. but yeah, focus on the positives, and hope that blogging will make me money?! or make it make me money!!!

Like my awesome old Sound Guard 8402 117 V.A.C. 35 Watt AM radio?!

Tippy Canoe and Luna were on the floor today, loungin’, as usual, when all of a sudden…

They are not actually holding hands. Well, they sort of were, and I caught them (which makes me proud), but one second later they were fighting. A lot.

I don’t have a flixwagon account yet because I don’t have an i-phone or other catchy device that can capture video and send it straight onto the internet tubes.

This site lets you put up clips from a second to maybe an hour (I guess I should have researched more) but whatever you want, and you can choose categories such as music, travel, entertainment, or the default ‘my life’.

Here is a great Fresh Cut Salads in the recording studio video that I’ve watched quite a few times. The Fresh Cut Salads videos are fun, and I think the site has great potential for bands to put up practices and concerts and such.

But there are also stupid videos, of which I imagine there will be a lot. The most viewed videos right now are mostly from some girl named SarahM and she seems like a pretty dumb blonde to me. She might work for some company that would make her seem smart, but I don’t care enough to watch long enough- it’s torturous and just as so many other things on the internet- it’s either because she might be seen as “hot” or because there keep being more and more views, that people watch it.

Anyway, check it out, it’s a decent idea and we’ll see where it goes.

Remember Natural Village in Huntingdon Valley, PA? One day I was so sad and scared when I tried to go there and see it closed! But good news!! It’s reopened under the name Wild Ginger and it’s similar management (I read that the old owners sold it to their niece), just with more exciting food (including sushi and Thai) and a more aesthetic interior dining experience!

I stopped by today, hoping to find good stuff, and I was happy to see some familiar faces and food offerings (sweet, efficient staff, and delicious healthy favorites like kale and garlic chicken or vegan mango chicken), and new ones too- so I tried their sushi. I enjoyed a cucumber and avocado roll, Philadelphia roll, and a sweet potato roll. Delightful and delicious, reasonably priced, and you can even get it with brown rice!

More reasons to go to Wild Ginger:
-The staff are friendly, fast, and efficient, and it looks like they are even better than before!
-The overall experience is very fun, and I love the classy and non-intrusive decor.
-They still have all of the healthy favorites, with new sushi and Thai food. And- they can spice it up however you want and I’m sure they would take any special requests.
-They offer some great lunch specials!
-It’s B.Y.O.B and they now have later hours!

Most of the items are about the same price (some are maybe a little bit more expensive), but it’s worth every penny- the food is delicious and healthy Chinese (and now other Asian tasty delights) and they have such great service I’d highly recommend going there for dinner, or stopping by for a lunch to enjoy the ambiance. Ordering take out works well too, as I found, their service was speedy, and they even offered me tea while I waited!

I will put up a menu once I get my scanner/workstation back in order (excuses I know), but I just had to write about Wild Ginger because I’m so glad it still has all of the great vegan Chinese favorites, as well as some exciting new sushi and other options- like seaweed salad, and…sexy salmon?! I’ll have to ask about that!

Head there now (Justafarm shopping center) and pick up a menu, which currently has some coupons on it, or call (215) 364-3960. Also be sure to check out their sweet new Wild Ginger website that will make you salivate! Yummy!!!

Check out the Telepathic Giraffe post that has a picture of the inside!

Yeah I have some pics I can put up of my office, it’s cute, and I share it with a nice lady. Only problem is I don’t yet have keys for it! It’s haphazard like that right now, but they are making some great changes around the school and I look forward to seeing how it goes.

I am a little scared about how fast August is going, but I’m mentally preparing myself little by little. And littler by littler I am planning and preparing lessons and things. I just need to work on the whole, then work inward, and also figure out the first day and few weeks. I’ll do it…I’m excited, (and getting paid), and I know I’ll feel much better once I do.

I’ll get pics up, as with everything, I say it, and I probably will do it, it’s just a matter of when….for now I’ll leave you with this thought- I’m again basically famous! Unfortunately it’s not the best news story (God bless you Carol Paul and I wish for a fast recovery for you), but if Carol Paul just knows that I’m out there wishing her well, and I could basically represent ANY human, then she will get better fast!
Check it for now, I’ll give you more info later. Lovies to the world of health and happiness!