Changing Habits

My quitting strategy was to keep my mind and body busy all the time, in order to keep my thoughts of cigarettes at bay, but new science now suggests that the worst thing smokers can do is try not to think about cigarettes.

I reward myself for finally being able to share a dessert, something I automatically refused to do for so long. What else have I done, I began to wonder, that is about actually changing something in my daily life?

The marriage drill would replace ingrained, negative instincts with practiced behavior that, through repetition and simulation, would become rote.

For the last few weeks, I've been keeping a journal of observations on how and what I eat. This detective work came from a place of loving observation, not condemnation.

"Women's lack of sleep has become a societal crisis bordering on a national health epidemic."

Mark Twain was a keen observer of human nature. As we begin 2010, I'm reminded of Twain's quote: "To promise not to do a thing is the surest way to make a body want to go and do that very thing."