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What you resist persists
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I was trying so hard to prevent my bad habit to consume my energy and time. However, I had little success. The harder I try, the bigger the failure and frustration. I really wish there IS a God that can help me. Those people who believe in you are blessed people. Unfortunately, I am not one of them. Will I be continuing on this downward trend? Will I be able to get one day I can see all my time are spend wisely? Will I be always live in self-awareness instead of avoidance and escape?
"Resistance to anything is like trying to change the outside pictures after they have been transmitted. It's a futile pursuit. You have to go within and emit a new signal with your thoughts and feelings to create the new pictures.
As you resist what has appeared, you are adding more energy and more power to those pictures you don't like, and you are bringing more of them at a furious rate. The event or circumstances can only get bigger, because that is the law of the Universe.
Jack Canfield - The anti-war movement creates more war. The anti-drug movement has actually created more drugs. Because we're focusing on what we don't want - drugs!"
Well, it is time to try a different way to solve this problem. I will start, build and cultivate my good habits. I will write it down, check my progress, and keep my commitments. If ever I will fall into my bad habit once or twice, I will let it go as long as I keep the good one going. Let’s see!
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I’ve experienced all that struggle and frustration. Your every word is empathizing to me. I’m very disappointed in the ways I manage my time and do things. I get carried away so easily and I’m also a hard-core procrastinator. I’ve tried many ways to change it, e.g. setting specific timetables for every hour everyday, using alarm clock to limit and reduce the time wasted, punishing myself if I break them like tightening the budget. However, none of them really worked for me in the end. I constantly waste time watching TV series, surfing on internet, doing things in an absurdly low efficiency, or simply doing nothing at all. and I always think I can do it tomorrow. It’s stupid but irredeemable. Like you said, resistance is futile. My life is brimming with bad habits and I can hardly kick any of them. It’s like a slippery slope and I could do nothing but watch myself keep falling, degenerating and consoling myself by wishful thinking or self-deception.
I’ve told myself a million times that I would completely change things up for the new year or new semester. But now I’m already graduated and another year is over. I’m still the same old me. It’s depressing and totally out of control.
I even tried to read the book the 7 highly effective habits. But I don’t even know when I simply stopped right there and now I cant even remember the full title of the book.
It’s so right that the negative psychological perspective of anti-something would in reverse encourage it. Maybe people have a thing for negative stuff and always attempt to break the rules and wear disobedience as a badge of honor, consciously or not.
I’m also gonna try it and work hard to quit all my bad habits in positive thinking. Hopefully, the new year would bring forth a new me.
