I like "failure"!!
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 5:26 am
Well actually I don't really like failing, but I felt like posting a little thought.
After a number of years, with the initial "knee jerk" resistance to the word "failure" in the first few years of doing NoS, I have reached a new phase in my NoS evolution.. I actually *prefer* to post failure, right away, and have done with it, than try to mentally finagle and make excuses as to why "this could be an S day, if.... etc" or make exceptions.. I'm totally fine with saying to myself "I chose to eat an ice cream today, and so I'm giving myself a "red" rather than making today an S day"... It just feels better to me to be completely honest with myself, rather than try to rationalise it into an S day or S "event"..
I want my HabitCal, to be a real and honest representation of whether or not I've truly been following NoS.
Today I chose to have a snack and a lemonade at my Son's performance of Into the Woods, and I could have claimed it as an S day, but I am actually happier calling it a conscious failure.
When i first joined NoS I had a terrible reaction to that word, and I'm really happy to say I've got no bad feelings about it now at all.
Debs
After a number of years, with the initial "knee jerk" resistance to the word "failure" in the first few years of doing NoS, I have reached a new phase in my NoS evolution.. I actually *prefer* to post failure, right away, and have done with it, than try to mentally finagle and make excuses as to why "this could be an S day, if.... etc" or make exceptions.. I'm totally fine with saying to myself "I chose to eat an ice cream today, and so I'm giving myself a "red" rather than making today an S day"... It just feels better to me to be completely honest with myself, rather than try to rationalise it into an S day or S "event"..
I want my HabitCal, to be a real and honest representation of whether or not I've truly been following NoS.
Today I chose to have a snack and a lemonade at my Son's performance of Into the Woods, and I could have claimed it as an S day, but I am actually happier calling it a conscious failure.
When i first joined NoS I had a terrible reaction to that word, and I'm really happy to say I've got no bad feelings about it now at all.
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