scratching an itch - Buying Something to Force Yourself Into a New Behavior Doesn’t Work: New Rules for a New Routine

call it the power of memes. its an itch. to blog. to tell the world what I think.

not that the world needs one more person's opinions, but hey, what the heck, that ain't going to stop me! what does stop me though is my laziness. and my disinterest in telling the world what I think. but the mind has a mind of its own which only the mind knows, and so as a compromise between my mind's desire to blog and my desire to keep shut here's a little something. a mini blog. a tumblelog.

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Buying Something to Force Yourself Into a New Behavior Doesn’t Work: New Rules for a New Routine

You have a behavior you want - a fitness routine, cooking good food at home, keeping more up-to-date with email - but you’re having some difficulty establishing it. So you make a big, splashy purchase in order to kick-start things - and then you find that didn’t do the trick either, and you’re left with a lot of money sunk into something you don’t really need.