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on losing and building on habits
To my dear Musers
I’m writing to you from my neurologist‘s waiting room. He’s running over 90 minutes late, which is not unusual. What is unusual is that I forgot to bring a book, knitting or anything to distract me. So, here I am writing to you.
This year has seen me sharpen my focus on habits, or more precisely, about changing my habits: building on the good ones, losing the bad ones.
One of the habits I’ve been losing is my attachment to social media. I turned my notifications off a couple of years back knowing that it was something that wasn’t great for me to be pinged all the time, the trouble was that I was then checking it on a regular basis to make sure I hadn’t missed a message. Once I was there, and I’m sure you know how this goes as it’s programmed against us, I began scrolling.
Social media is here to stay, there’s no doubt about that, and as someone who has formed so many connections through my socials, I don’t want to lose that. The hab…
