Learning Stuff, and Getting Tough

Merry Christmas. Or whatever y'all celebrate in Germany. I don't know.

These are my pageviews sorted by country. I don't understand this number, but I ain't about to question it...

Anyways, for the last three days (I know what date it is, I just forgot to hit the post button on the 22nd.) I haven't been journaling. But I've done a lot more writing than usual. For the past two weeks, I've been tackling Atomic Habits by James Clear. I've been wanting to read it since I watched a summary video on it earlier this year (check that out here). However, I had to finish up No More. Mr. Nice Guy before I could tackle it. 

You see, I'm not the kind of guy that enjoys reading two books at a time. The way I read things is by taking in a paragraph, and writing down what I've read in my own words. Sometimes it gets exhaustive to do that across three pages of the same book, so I can't imagine how annoying doing that for two books at once would be. 

At least, not yet. 

That's one of the big points of Atomic Habits. Scrutinizing what you think you can do, and challenging yourself little by little, until you can do so much more. I never would've seen myself as a guy who exercised every single day, or picked up his guitar and started learning and practicing chords and scales. Hell, not even six months ago, I declared that this blog was dead. But alas, I was wrong about so much stuff. The fundamental thing I've learned in reading both this book and No More Mr. Nice Guy is that in order to get the most productive things done, you have to change the way you view yourself. And the way I view myself is almost constantly changing. 

Anyways, happy first day of Christmas.

You Americans don't understand the concept of multiple days of Christmas. It's a German thing. I just looked that up literally one minute ago.