Posts tagged fifteen minute rule
Posts tagged fifteen minute rule
My concentration is pretty much why I’ve stopped for the day. It’s very hard to focus on what they’re saying, even when I do things like color to try and improve my ability to do it.
But I got through three! That was like, 45 minutes! Plus three songs was almost the whole length of a Sacrament meeting (after you take out the administrative stuff.) So I’m calling it a victory. And now I have Conference music on for the rest of the day, so, woot.
Not really, because I knew it’d be very hard to get up in time to do it properly. But, well, it’s 10am and I still haven’t had breakfast and I should would like to be in the middle of the Sunday School section of my plan already.
But that’s OK! I’m going to get breakfast, take care of physical needs, and then catch up wherever it was going to be. And I AM wearing church clothes, albeit without the nylons, and I DO know where my scriptures are. So there’s something.
One step at a time.
(They also say in the program, “I will not ‘should’ on myself today;” it has a tendency to be very unhealthy to use that word. So I’m trying to avoid it.)
One of the things they talk about doing in my program is the “fifteen minute rule.” It means trying something, or getting close to trying something, for just a little bit, or just halfway, and seeing how it feels. You’re not committing to doing the whole thing, just testing the waters, getting cozy with the idea, giving it a shot, being realistic in the sense that you’re sure you can pull it off. So instead of saying “I’m going to clean my house,” you say “I’m going to go around and pick up books and papers and put them in stacks for fifteen minutes.” You’re limiting it to something that’s definitely possible, so you don’t put yourself in a position to fail.
Today was a hard one, and I am not really sure why.
