I Think You Can (experiment in progress)

Whenever I think about doing just one thing, I get the “oh no, I’ll miss out on something else” feeling. I get that feeling as if there isn’t enough time in the world, as if I need to hurry up and finish. A lot of bloggers love the concept of doing just one thing at a time, and I’m good with that and use that strategy often. But my angst is for a different oneitis.

There are other bloggers who believe on focusing on just one habit at a time. This, while it maybe a good idea for some, does not fit my desires and really doesn’t mesh with my thinking.  I think this idea is promoted so often because no one has came up with something similar to a [push button] method to change entire lives by modifying a bunch of habits at the same time. I think if a person can be thrown on an island and forced to change their lifestyle right then and there, then a person can also take a thought and on his own free will, trade in all of his old habits for new habits in a laid out, pragmatic way – the reason that I think this is possible is because with enough passion, there is no limit to the rate/speed at which you can change your life, and if you’re lacking passion, you can probably create it. You’re not limited to one habit a month. You could change your habits entirely today. You can change your entire life this evening.

I’m putting this idea to the test [again], but I wanted to keep you guys in the know. If I make it 28 days in any capacity, well … I’ll have beaten myself. I’ve wanted to do this for awhile, and have tried a couple of times before and failed. But, with newer ways to produce passion and newer ideas that yield better understanding, I have to try again. My #1 drive for doing this sort of thing is those almost great books. I’ve always wanted to complain directly to a few authors about their content. HAY, WHERE IS THE STEP-BY-STEP!? Maybe it’s because I’m used to having instructions when someone is trying to teach a new method? Yah know, the kinds that have steps? Whatever it is, it’s those books that drive me to really find out how to change a life in a push-button style.

It’s those books that say they’re going to help you CREATE AMAZING CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW that sort of get to me. A few years ago I’d buy into that, and waste hours reading the fluff in the bookstore. Years later I found out that I’m better off reading actual content on bloggers who read through and filter through all the fluff for me, picking out the gems of value, then posting about them on their free blog.

Have you ever gone to a book store looking for that book, thinking that it’s going to change your LIFE right now, like it promises, in an amazing and drastic way, and then it just really doesn’t hit the spot? There are a zillion books on the self-help shelf right now that do just that. Some of them are great, some of them are worthless, and some of them are in the middle. The problem is, they will change your mind, and get the ball rolling, but it doesn’t give me that bang bam pow amazing feeling that I’d like to get. I don’t get a step-by-step guide or anything. I get a lot of theorycrafting and thoughts about how I should change my perspective on life. While that’s all good and well, when it doesn’t tie into a practical application/activity/do-able, I’m left alone with no ambition and a bunch of bound paper.

So, what I’d like to do is eventually create a nicely formatted strategy with a step-by-step on how to change your life, right now. Hopefully all the theory crafting will be easily understood and perfectly mixed in with the step-by-step to help the person reading it understand the ideas best. My aim is to fill the gap that I’ve so often seen in “self-help” anything. This is one of my goals underneath my top level goal. But first, I have to pass my own test to see if the method holds any water. Don’t you love it when people eat their own words before feeding it to others? Heh.

In the end, I have the highest faith in our abilities as humans.