{"id":124,"date":"2015-01-20T09:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T14:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rumohr.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2015-07-03T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T18:22:31","slug":"the-habit-of-having-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rumohr.com\/blog\/the-habit-of-having-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Habit of Having Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/rumohr.com\/blog\/the-challenge-of-not-being-distra-oh-look-over-there\/\">that distraction we talked about yesterday<\/a>? \u00a0I think this can happen at a higher level, a life level, too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been an early adopter of technology. \u00a0That mindset can also bleed over into other areas of life. \u00a0I like to look for and try out the latest diet, the latest productivity system, the latest lifestyle app&#8230;even the latest entrepreneurial system :-) \u00a0I can do this even in areas where I have an existing solution that I&#8217;m perfectly happy with. \u00a0It&#8217;s an engineer&#8217;s mindset, always in quest of a better mousetrap. \u00a0Or a form of FOMO. \u00a0Or maybe both.<\/p>\n<p>It can be enriching to gain the benefits of new research, new advances, and new techniques. \u00a0But there is a cost in switching gears, in retooling to adopt the new methods. \u00a0If done too often, one can spend more time learning and converting to new systems than actually using them to accomplish something productive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on Day 5 of the <a title=\"15 Days to Freedom Blog Challenge\" href=\"https:\/\/contest.io\/c\/pahnxkz2\" target=\"_blank\">15 Days to Freedom Blog Challenge<\/a> by Natalie Sisson of <a title=\"The Suitcase Entrepreneur\" href=\"http:\/\/suitcaseentrepreneur.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Suitcase Entrepreneur<\/a>, and the topic for\u00a0today is to describe\u00a0one habit I&#8217;m replacing, and what I&#8217;m going to replace it with.<\/p>\n<p>So my new habit this year is to pick a horse and ride it, for long enough to reap some benefits from it. \u00a0Change incrementally, tweak as necessary, but not to radically change the underpinning, unless it&#8217;s absolutely necessary. \u00a0And not to enjoy the journey so\u00a0much that it delays the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that distraction we talked about yesterday? \u00a0I think this can happen at a higher level, a life level, too. 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