{"id":8513,"date":"2016-11-02T17:14:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T21:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2016-11-02T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T17:22:19","slug":"creature-of-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2016\/11\/02\/creature-of-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature of Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can be pretty scatterbrained.\u00c2\u00a0Time has a way of whizzing past when engaged in some activity. Creating and adhering to a schedule makes being where I need to be easier and less stressful.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-smartphone, I set Google calendar to send me SMS notifications to give me a heads up about meetings or appointments. If I my dream job allowed me to just sit in front of my computer all day might, I would not have needed this. Unfortunately,\u00c2\u00a0at the time back-to-back meetings were fairly common for me. Once I got my first smartphone, the amount of notifications in my calendar bloomed.\u00c2\u00a0My life is a world of notifications about what to do when.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly I try to organize my environment\u00c2\u00a0such that I will have what I need when I need it. For example, I have five\u00c2\u00a0gym bags with\u00c2\u00a0a change of clothes, so I can toss several in the car and have them when I go to the gym after work.<\/p>\n<p>Failing to have a bag\u00c2\u00a0probably means I will skip the gym. Going home to change means I get distracted. Plus, I am not too keen on the gym location closer to home than halfway between home and work. \u00c2\u00a0I dither which I want to visit and probably end up getting an early dinner instead.<\/p>\n<p>I use a similar strategy for everything else.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bills I need to pay sit in a spot so I walk past them when I enter, leave, or go to do something.<\/li>\n<li>Things I need to take to work are placed in front of the door, so I cannot open it without moving them.<\/li>\n<li>Keys and wallet and work laptop stay in specific places.<\/li>\n<li>Coats go next to the door.<\/li>\n<li>The next load of laundry I need to do gets stacked in the room. I have hamper bags for each load so I toss them into right place at the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this organization is because I know left to my own habits there would be chaos.\u00c2\u00a0My personality leads to entropy, so I have to work at creating systems to establish order in my life. The better I allow the systems to work, the fewer the stumbles and gotchas. That said, the order often falls apart into disarray, so the systems have to be simple enough to restore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can be pretty scatterbrained.\u00c2\u00a0Time has a way of whizzing past when engaged in some activity. Creating and adhering to a schedule makes being where I need to be easier and less stressful. Pre-smartphone, I set Google calendar to send me SMS notifications to give me a heads up about meetings or appointments. If I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[462],"tags":[167,121,3208],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","tag-design","tag-environment","tag-habits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2dj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}