Monday, July 02, 2007
Persistence
Darren,
Thanks for being patient with the fact that I haven’t written in this blog for a very long time. It’s easy to let a good thing lapse. We all have, with diets or exercise routines or saving money or even little things like walking the dog every morning. It’s hard to stay consistent in life when other things happen. In our case, we moved (what a lot of work!) and then went on vacation (yay).
The key to being consistent in life with your goals is to always start back up again if you quit. It’s easy to go a month and then just give up because it’s been a month. But if you start back up again, you’ve only missed a month. And if it’s a life-long good habit, or a long term goal, then one month (or two) won’t make a big difference in the long run.
Sometimes people with Asperger Syndrome think things have to be done perfectly right every time exactly on time, or else it's wrong and not worth doing. This blog entry is late, but I'm muddling through and trying again and it will end up OK. The blog is still worth doing, even though it isn't perfect with a great big month-and-a-half hole in it.
Since this blog is one of my goals, I’m going to start back up again and write some more. Someday the month-and-a-half gap won't look so big. And I’m looking forward to it!
Mom
Thanks for being patient with the fact that I haven’t written in this blog for a very long time. It’s easy to let a good thing lapse. We all have, with diets or exercise routines or saving money or even little things like walking the dog every morning. It’s hard to stay consistent in life when other things happen. In our case, we moved (what a lot of work!) and then went on vacation (yay).
The key to being consistent in life with your goals is to always start back up again if you quit. It’s easy to go a month and then just give up because it’s been a month. But if you start back up again, you’ve only missed a month. And if it’s a life-long good habit, or a long term goal, then one month (or two) won’t make a big difference in the long run.
Sometimes people with Asperger Syndrome think things have to be done perfectly right every time exactly on time, or else it's wrong and not worth doing. This blog entry is late, but I'm muddling through and trying again and it will end up OK. The blog is still worth doing, even though it isn't perfect with a great big month-and-a-half hole in it.
Since this blog is one of my goals, I’m going to start back up again and write some more. Someday the month-and-a-half gap won't look so big. And I’m looking forward to it!
Mom
