Stephanie
Smoking
I know, I know, my mother would be ashamed of me. But I promised to try a new habit every week, and who could ignore a habit as prolific as smoking? I’ve always wondered if the reason I didn’t fit in when I was in film school was that I never took up cancer [...]
Juggling: Days 1, 2, and 3
I’ll tell you… this "juggling every day" thing isn’t going as well as I’d hoped. I’ve managed it every day so far, but the last two days, I squeezed it in at the end of the day, as an "Oh yeah, I haven’t juggled yet!" thing before bed. Not a good sign.
It’s not entirely worth breaking [...]
Juggling Every Day
I think we juggle a lot of things in life. We juggle our personal lives with our work lives. We juggle time between friends and obligations. We juggle responsibilities.
But this week? I’m just going to juggle. Small objects. Red juggling balls, mostly. And probably some goslings, as well:
Aren’t they just adorable? I picked them up from a [...]
Am I Wrong About Willpower?
Cal Newport over at Study Hacks ran an article that questions the very same willpower research that I reported on last week. So maybe the research I mentioned was wrong, and willpower isn’t a muscle to be "exercised."
Or maybe it is. The theories that Cal reported on don’t exactly go against Dr. Baumeister’s theories - [...]
Spring Fitness Challenge: Days 5, 6, and 7
One week of the Spring Fitness Challenge - DONE! The question is… do I plan to stick with it?
Day 5: Rest
Sunday was a day of rest. The two programs (100 push-ups and 200 sit-ups) are each three days a week, so if I do them every other day, my week gets messed up if I don’t [...]
Spring Fitness Challenge: Days 3 and 4
Two more days of the Spring Fitness Challenge, and my body is really starting to feel it! That’s a good thing, right? I’m trying to push myself, without overdoing it.
Day 3: Sit-Ups
Based on my initial test, I either could have done the third column of week 1 (the hardest set of that week), or skipped ahead to [...]
Spring Fitness Challenge: Days 1 and 2
The Zen College Life Spring Fitness Challenge 2009 is based off of the popular One Hundred Push-Ups and Two Hundred Sit-Ups programs. These programs are both six-week courses designed to get you in shape by doing, predictably, push-ups and sit-ups.
The sit-ups, by the way, are not the full-upper-body back-pain-inducing sit-ups that doctors recommend against, but [...]
Willpower and Weekly Habits
My entire life, I have lacked a reasonable level of willpower. Leave a bag of M&Ms next to me and I’ll eat them all, even if it’s a 1 pound bag. Exercise regimes never stick. I sucked my thumb until I was six years old. At age 22, I still bite my nails. I somehow [...]
