De-addiction

I'm an information junkie, internet addict, habitual multi-tasker, which is all to say that I'm mostly distracted, unfocused and have a fairly short attention span. Sure, sometimes all these are helpful in my work life but I have a sneaking suspicion that they're not actually as beneficial as I would like to believe they are. I've recently come across http://zenhabits.net and find some of the ideas in it very appealing!

Minimalism, focus, eating right, decreasing clutter and distraction and thereby achieving much more - all nice concepts. So where do I stand?  A few points come to mind:
1. I'm fairly de-cluttered, I don't like collecting too much stuff. The two things I AM guilty of is hoarding books and clothes I hope I'll fit into someday :)
2. Cutting off the distractions in life - I've managed to reduce my TV viewing to almost zero. The trick being - I didn't renew my TATA Sky subscription! On the flip side, internet & information remain a massive distraction for me. I have already checked my facebook three times from the time I started writing this post.
3.  Multitasking is another problem area. I read while I eat. Hell I even read books while browsing, to fill the waiting time between pages loading due to a lousy connection speed.
4. I'm a perpetual list maker, which apparently is a good habit. But I make them all over the place, I write them down, put them in task manager programs, put them on post-its and invariably I forget about all of them.
5. Eating right - this is at least making some progress. I'm not a huge processed food fan but then I'm also a miserable cook. So the options are either to take up some cooking or to train the cook how to make interesting, healthy food or eating fairly boring, healthy food made by her. I'll take the boring, healthy food anyday :) The danger being, obviously - boredom and therefore a lapse into eating wrong. I'll live with that for now though.



That doesn't add up to a very impressive score overall. But as the author suggests, if I had to pick just one area to work upon - it would be decreasing the internet/info overload I subject myself to. If my next post is sooner than a month, it'll be an indication of some progress at least.

and it was all yellow.....

Well, so finally my principles went crumbling down and for my well being and to get all the good forces of the universes aligned to my energy fields and for generall all around fantastic-ness happening to me - I decided to change my curtains and put in yellow/greenish yellow ones!

What has happened till now is that the only thing the positive forces of the world have succeeded in doing is breaking my curtain rod. So the problem of the blue curtains casting their malacious shadow on me is solved. In fact there is no chance of ANY curtains casting ANY shadow on me since I can't hang any curtains on that window anyway.

Not one to be deterred by all these magnanimous powers that be, I decided to tackle the second window in the room. So what if one window didn't have curtains? ONE window is damn well enough especially armed to the teeth with yellow curtains. Bring it on shani and whichever other planets and cosmic bodies have it in for me.


Normally , this should involve a simple process. Unscrew rod. Take off blue curtains. Put on yellow/greenish yellow ones. Screw rod back on.
This is actually what happened. Unscrew rod. The whole rod + the holding bit breaks. Take off blue curtains off the rod. Throw rod on the floor. Scream.

I have currently two broken curtain rods. Two different coloured curtains in my living room (from where I was trying to effect a smart swap with the blue curtains) and needless to say, a room without any curtains AT ALL.