One of the reasons that I have trouble being happy is that I'm never satisfied. I'm always looking for something "better" and it's pretty frustrating. If you're never satisfied then you're always looking around, seeing what other people have and feeling unsettled. If you manage to acquire something, you can't enjoy it and spend most of your time with buyer's remorse.
As you may know, I'm in the process of buying a house. It's definitely a cool place, but I can't stop my brain from thinking about all the things that I don't like about it. Focusing on the negative puts me into a bad mood which causes me to focus more tightly on the negative and so on and so forth. Gah.
I'm also incredibly impatient. I just want things over with quickly. I'm not really sure why, but I can't stop to smell the roses. When I hike, I hike as fast as I can rather than hiking to enjoy the surroundings.
I will admit that this personality trait/flaw helps me be a good engineer because I'm always looking for flaws and how to improve them, but it's wrecking havoc on my personal life.
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- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Season 3, Disc 3 - Awesome.
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Season 3, Disc 2 - Pretty good and actually politicized.
- Despicable Me - Not bad, but I'm not in the target audience.
- Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon - Some of the worst movie physics ever and a fairly stupid plot yet still very entertaining.
- The Source Code - Terrible.
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- Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
- Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe
- Amped by Douglas E Richards (Kindle)
- Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
- The Complete Far Side Collection by Gary Larson
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- Weekend in review
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- 2009 Blazers draft summary
- Waking up too early
- Not good sleeping weather
- I saw a falcon.
- Moving
- Online banking
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- Letting go is tough.
- Should I get an iPhone?
- Fitness update
- Easy baked tilapia dinner
- With white flight comes cheap housing
- My own minor super power
- Could be better news
- White flight in Detroit
- Monday links
- Hike up Mt. Colvin and Mt. Blake
- Getting up early
- Gray hair and stress
- Fitness update
- Using salt water to grow crops.
- Introspectacus
- Getting excited
- Buying a house is a huge pain in the ass.
- Do us all a favor and hang up and drive.
- Preparing for the apocalypse
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4 comments:
But self awareness is the first step, yes?
True, but sometimes knowing about it isn't enough. I think I just need to put the work in.
Having my new house will give me a lot of constructive things to do.
That is true. There is always home improvements/things that need to be fixed up when you own a house!
I don't think I've been bored a single moment at home since my stuff arrived. There is always something to do or to take care of.
I think my yard is going to need a lot of work, but that's ok.
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