100 Day Challenge: Day 23
Really this should be day 23.5.
This morning I was reminded of the saying: "It takes 21 days to form a habit." I don't believe that, it's been my experience that you start to form a habit after 21 days, but at that point the actions start to be picked up by your subconscious and it will start pushing back. It will ask you if this is what your really want, it will try to distract you, it will play tricks on you.
Why would your own subconscious do that? Well it's where a lot of your core identity is. It's where the beliefs about who you are that have been built up over a long period of time reside. Changing things about yourself can be painful, look at addiction. Something habitual that you've believed for years is a lot like an addiction. In that without it, your body/mind doesn't know what to do. So it fights back and says: "NO, THIS IS THE WAY I AM!"
So why do I bring this up?
Well just like most things I've been writing about during this process, I found this bit of understanding staring me in the face. I didn't make a post last night and I didn't do my exercises even though one of my intentions for this week is to get back on track with my 100 Day Challenge.
So here I am with some free time after a test in my Astrobiology class telling my subconscious: "NO, YOU DO WHAT I TELL YOU TO DO!"
We'll see what happens over the next little while. My Sensei Mr. Smith has told me a few times that it takes 21 days to form an initial habit, then another 21 days to push that new way of thinking into your subconscious. So I'll be putting that to the test over the next three weeks.
On another note, I started reorganizing my bedroom. I bought a TV stand and put it together yesterday (rather than doing homework though) and I arranged my room. Of course something still feels off with the way it's configured. I've got some more ideas and going to play around with them while I finish cleaning out my closets. I'm hoping it will make my room feel more comfortable.
Which on the subject, is something I remembered from my personality test. It said that I need my home life to private and feel comfortable. My bedroom has really been anything but. Part of it, I'm sure has been having a Queen size bed in the room. The location of which is dictated by the ability to open the door 
But I found a spot that seems to work, now I don't think my TV works being positioned next to my bed. So I'm going to try and move it to another corer toward the foot of my bed. My problem there becomes playing video games on the TV which is something else I'd like to be able to do in the room. I have a banana chair, but the situating everything seems like it's going to be a bit tricky, while keeping access to my closets. Well at least one of them, the other is just being used for storage right now.
Alright well time for class.
Everyone make it a great one!