There are times when I feel the need to trick myself. Yes, dont give me that look. I do trick myself often. I'll mention one trick I experimented and found that it worked!
It was a heavy-hearted rain-swollen Wednesday morning. I'm sure you know how professionals feel on week day mornings like these. Not to mention, I was sleepy (that's just an understatement, unwilling to move out of bed, absolutely irritated at the thought of having to go to work! Nevertheless, I pulled myself out of my sheets, got ready for office and got back to bed, waiting for my cab, and hoping to make the best use of the wait time.
Sometime later I was a zombie at work. Like all other days, I made a to-do list, though lousily. It included lots of things topped with some boring procastinated tasks from the last week which had to be sent out asap. And I was least in the mind to work.
Un-determined to finish my work, I facebook-ed for sometime. 'Sometime' turned out to be exactly an hour because you dont realize how much time you have been jaywalking on facebook visiting the viral strings of profiles and innumerable links! Looked at my to-do list. Screamed a "NOOO." It didnt work. It didnt make me any more kicked up to work than even an hour ago. Finally, rubbing my hands together, I geared up to trick myself. I pulled out the to-do list for the previous day (Tuesday) which had all pink-highlighted to-do's. Pink for me means done. Pulling out a bigger post-it, I wrote down all of Tuesday's to-do's and all of today's in one sequence. Marked each of Tuesday's to-do item broad pink and kept the list right in front of my eyes.
8 hours later. I rechecked my list. All of today's were marked pink too! Ruminated on how lazily I had started the day, and now all my tasks were done! Yep, I had managed to trick myself by saying this to my mind: 'See all the tasks in point # 1,2,3,4,5 are done. Wow. Just 10 more to go for today. Take baby steps, one at a time, and see you will have all 15 pink soon.'
It worked. Tried it many more times. Figured this out of the whole thing: The sudden unprecedented pleasure that the mind gets on seeing strikethroughs on to-do's or tasks marked 'done' is immense, and it keeps you going for the rest of the list.
Try it. It works wonders! :)
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Half a Lettuce Leaf!
Ladies, excuse me for this post.
99% ladies- girls, women, aunts, moms, all of them are possessed with the idea of losing weight, no matter how much they weigh. Agreed that as many women as I've interacted with all my life, most of them needed to lose weight, however, this thought haunts them so much that they go to ridiculous extremes to have a few kilos off their arms or tummies! I understand that proportions can sometimes go off-limits, and this makes the N-dimensional individual the cynosure of all eyes, but often waif-thin people put me off by asking:'do I look fat in this dress?'
Nonsense.
Its, however, funny to see how these 'lose weight in 5 days' centers cash in on these people and earn gallons! Especially nice are their ads. I'd love to mention one of them here. So there is this fat-but-not-so-fat girl saying 'earlier people liked my face but rejected me for my fat body. Now they like me. Thank you xyz center.' I read it and this is the thought that strikes me: 'earlier people liked my face and rejected me for my fat body. Now they like my body but they reject my face'...ha hahaha...
I may sound sadistic, but yeah, these people, especially the women folk are easy cash-cows for these so-called-weight-management companies.
Especially funny are the things women do to lose weight, and in contrast, the funnier things they do under the influence of salivary glands. On one hand, they eat half a lettuce leaf for lunch and, on the other hand, ransack the icecream parlor in an hour! They order the sandwich guy 'ONLY brown bread please.' Leave them alone for sometime, and they'll gorge on vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce!
I'd say, eat well, but just stay healthy by exercising and not by starving and depriving the body and mind of goodies.
Please don't point fingers at me because I havent yet put on weight. The day I do, Ill remove this post. Promise. :)
99% ladies- girls, women, aunts, moms, all of them are possessed with the idea of losing weight, no matter how much they weigh. Agreed that as many women as I've interacted with all my life, most of them needed to lose weight, however, this thought haunts them so much that they go to ridiculous extremes to have a few kilos off their arms or tummies! I understand that proportions can sometimes go off-limits, and this makes the N-dimensional individual the cynosure of all eyes, but often waif-thin people put me off by asking:'do I look fat in this dress?'
Nonsense.
Its, however, funny to see how these 'lose weight in 5 days' centers cash in on these people and earn gallons! Especially nice are their ads. I'd love to mention one of them here. So there is this fat-but-not-so-fat girl saying 'earlier people liked my face but rejected me for my fat body. Now they like me. Thank you xyz center.' I read it and this is the thought that strikes me: 'earlier people liked my face and rejected me for my fat body. Now they like my body but they reject my face'...ha hahaha...
I may sound sadistic, but yeah, these people, especially the women folk are easy cash-cows for these so-called-weight-management companies.
Especially funny are the things women do to lose weight, and in contrast, the funnier things they do under the influence of salivary glands. On one hand, they eat half a lettuce leaf for lunch and, on the other hand, ransack the icecream parlor in an hour! They order the sandwich guy 'ONLY brown bread please.' Leave them alone for sometime, and they'll gorge on vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce!
I'd say, eat well, but just stay healthy by exercising and not by starving and depriving the body and mind of goodies.
Please don't point fingers at me because I havent yet put on weight. The day I do, Ill remove this post. Promise. :)
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