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Grandpa Shooter

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Forming habits?
« on: June 15, 2008, 08:36:24 AM »
Is it just me, or do any of you have trouble forming habits?

Such things as remembering to take your meds, making the right turns on the way to someplace you go frequently, picking up stuff after yourself.

Seems like I have to think my way through every day because I just don't ever get habituated to doing something.  I miss my prescriptions frequently, drive right by someplace because my mind is not on what I am doing, leave things behind, or forget to pick them up to take with me.

A good example would be the fact that I wear a hat every day.  I have to because of having had skin cancer.  I get doing something and it is only when I bang my head that I discover I have no hat on.

Anyone else?
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Re: Forming habits?
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2008, 07:36:04 PM »
It is a sign of getting old.   grin
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Re: Forming habits?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2008, 12:03:44 AM »
I have trouble forming good habits. The bad ones come so easily. cheesy
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Re: Forming habits?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2008, 12:33:26 AM »
I know I do.  I have to constantly remember to do things that need to get done daily.  If it's not something that will of itself alert me to something being forgotten, like not putting on my shoes or grabbing my coffee, I tend to forget it.

If I get into the habit I'm OK but it takes a long time to get there.  Also if that habit gets broken for a few days I'm often back to square one.

BTW, I'm only 22.  Yall old foogies don't have a monopoly on the market  grin

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Re: Forming habits?
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2008, 01:58:20 AM »
I frequently pass up places I'm driving to.  It happens more often when someone is in the passenger seat talking to me.
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Re: Forming habits?
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2008, 06:32:02 AM »
I forget everything, instantly.
It makes life very hard sometimes. =\
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Re: Forming habits?
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2008, 06:39:12 AM »
What was the question again ?

As I get older, I find myself thinking a lot more about the "hereafter"

I walk into a room, and I think: "what am I here after?"  undecided
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Re: Forming habits?
« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2008, 08:18:09 PM »
I have seriously tried to form good habits.  I know I should remember to take my arthritis meds so that I don't hurt all day.  I know I should remember to pay the bills before I get disconnect notices.  It is not like I don't know the things I should do out of habit.  For some reason I just have a really hard time forming good habits.

In my case, I attribute it to the reality that my life has been in an uproar for a long time.  If something could happen to disrupt my day, it will.  I will spend 30 minutes looking for my truck keys, searching every place they realistically could be, only to discover the gremlins slipped them in my pants pocket while I wasn't aware of it.

That really seems to be the crux of it.  The gremlins, ah, now I understand! grin
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