Have you ever heard about this silent room. Reportedly it is so quiet you can hear the blood moving in your head. I must admit I have often been curious what it might be like to be in such a room.
I find both silence and sound to be somewhat difficult to deal with – maybe it would be more accurate to say I am addicted to YouTube.
There is a tendency nowadays to fill all moments with sound. It could be music, the aforementioned YouTube, or even an audio book. I am aware that with the use of the word ‘nowadays’ I sound like an old man.
As I am writing this now I have a YouTube video paused. When I finish this session I will unpause, listen for a little bit longer, and then pause again. Often that is how I operate over a day. I am sure it is not particularly effective.
Would silence be better?
I am not sure what it is about silence but it can be hard to deal with too. The funny thing is it is not even that I have too many thoughts. Mostly my mind is rather blank.
It is said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. I think that I have been embodying that for a while.
Breaking out of a bad habit can be hard. I suppose I am thinking about that now, in particular, as we get towards the end of the year. (Now we’ve started a new year. I started this on 2024-12-11)
New habits can be embarked on at any point, obviously, but there is something about a new year that makes it seem like it is the right time to do it.
On the other hand, ‘New Year’s resolutions’ are doomed to failure. It is an often repeated fact that such resolutions rarely make it out of January.
They say that the better thing to do is to set a general intention. I am not sure how to do that. To be more accurate I need to find the discipline to do it.
What I have found is that there are always impediments. The parts of my life out of my control sometimes lead to not being able to stick to a routine. I have set an intention to wake up at 0700 each day. However I sometimes have trouble sleeping. On those nights, if I don’t have to be up in the morning, I cancel my alarm, wake up late, and then the whole day is thrown off and I am back to square one.
It is now January and this post is only just being completed. Maybe I should work on doing these in one go. Each time I come to it I write just a little more. Therefore it is long past time to wrap it up.
Lately, to help with being productive, I have been using dice. I write out a list, select a dice, and roll it down a dice tower to decide what I will do next. It makes choosing just a little more fun. So far so good.
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