A Man Reborn

Twenty days ago I made a list of a few behaviour changes that I wanted to try and I’ve focused on those changes since then.  It’s gone very well and the changes have become habits.  I’m doing one of the changes with my friend Candy – the 21 day no complaint experiment.  Now that 21 days are almost up, she asked how we would up the ante and keep it going forward.  Truthfully, I’m not sure – so I’m going to do some reading and see if I can find any previous feedback from past experimenters to see where they have gone from here.

I’m also starting to think about the next set of habits I want to change.  Like I’ve said before, 21 days isn’t very long, but it’s long enough to make your mind believe you’ve been doing something forever.  It doesn’t even have to be an absolute belief – just enough that it would take more energy and effort on your part to go against the habit as opposed to going with it.

On Monday morning I talked to my boss – he did the presentation of the video I had worked on over the weekend to our main client.  They absolutely loved it!  It had the exact effect on them that we were trying to achieve.  As a result, we are getting business from them that was previously slated to go to another company and we’ll be working on some training videos for them.  More to learn for me and more creative work which I always welcome – and now that I have a better understanding of the process, the hours won’t be nearly as long.

Last night I met some friends for a Paul Verhoeven double bill: Robocop / Starship Troopers.  Saw them both at the Bloor Cinema – we almost always sit in the balcony towards the back because it’s deserted and we enjoy heckling the film and having conversations with ridiculous tangents in the middle of it.  Got my action flick fix and hung out with good people, including one I hadn’t seen in over a year – so good times!