The Battle Has Begun

The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world - Post It notes!!! I slept for 30 hours this weekend. Call that lazy? I don't. I call it the first smart thing I've done in a month. The Thief is taking away my very livelihood: my motivation. Sadly, one night short on sleep makes a second night even harder to resist. The human body is very susceptible to conditioning, which normally is good because it means I can put my mind to better use as long as I make the right habits. How do you pull yourself out of a rut? You pull really hard!

That's just what I did. I put Post-It notes all over my apartment. Just like in the movie Back to the Future, where the Doc learns how to make his time machine by leaving himself a note (well, ok - he unknowingly sent a videotape back in time...). Except I'm doing it with post-it notes and without any of those pesky Space-time continuum paradoxes.

Post-it note on the alarm clock to tell me to get up the first time it goes off, a post-it on the shower to tell me to take my bicycle before taking a shower, a post-it note on a box of cereal strategically placed by my laptop saying "Eat this," and even a reassuring post-it on the back door to my biçycle saying "Yes, this way."

Will it be easy? I'm sure it won't be. Can I do it? Absolutely. It's not the first time I've gotten into something like this, but I'm making it my goal that this is the last time I have to fight my way out of the unmotivation zone.