Category Archives: Effective Habits

Giving myself a break

I despise Mondays and I dislike Fridays. You were nodding along with me for a millisecond, but then froze mid-nod when you read the word “Friday,” and thought, Wait…what?? I know, it’s strange.  Mondays we can loathe right out in the open, but we have to be secretive if we are Friday-haters.  So I don’t…

Turns out I’ll do almost anything for chocolate

I tried everything. Begging, pleading, sticker charts, gold stars, making it public, ignoring it and hoping it would get better. No, I’m not talking about toilet training (although that turned out to have the same solution, I’m afraid).  No, what I’m talking about getting all my chores done every day. It’s not like I was…

>The habits themselves

>In case you are wondering what on earth I’m trying to accomplish every day, here goes: 1.  Workout.  I tend to put this off until later in the day, because the pregnancy workout videos are pretty lame, and going for a walk with Sebastian in the stroller up and down the hills in our neighborhood…

>The Rules

>All right, I’ve settled on some rules for my first resolution in order to make sure I make it to my second.  While I’d love to think that I could do a month straight of getting all of my Effective (daily) Habits done, I’m realistic enough to know that life gets in the way sometimes. …