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[jay]

More half-flips at skating... I'm starting to land them reliably. Only fell three times tonight. Jumps seem easier for me than spins or pivots, my two-footed spin scrapes. Literally. In order to pass the Freestyle 1 test in April, I'd need much more practice than I'm getting... plus more instruction, perhaps a few lessons. Sigh.

Arriving home afterwards, I rode an endorphin high for an hour or so. I ached a bit, but it was a *good* ache ;-). But now feel a bit down and sleepy. Vaguely envious of other people.

In any case, I'm posting here my Lenten selection poll, as per my Sunday entry. I'll pursue the most popular choice of discipline for the next 34 days... ;-). Granted, many of these are excellent suggestions. Only friends are enabled as voters, to prevent anonymous ballot-stuffing by certain parties (smile). Thanks in advance for humoring me by taking the time to respond...

[Poll #111421]

Comments

*grin*

[kitchenwitch.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to see that no one's suggested giving up chocolate or sex yet. :)

Most of your suggestions are things that you should be doing ALL the time, so it's difficult to say "do this for Lent". The more tangible (like writing down one good thing about yourself per day) alternatives are far more appropriate, I think. They'll help you on the track to the intangible things (like not being so self-critical).

Good luck. :)

Re: *grin*

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

What she said!

Re: *grin*

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

What they both said - I always feel Lent, if observed, is better done as a time to add in activities and do more, rather than trying to abstain, much harder to slip into the trap of feeling all noble and self-righteous. And giving up on sex is a negative thing in the extreme.

[geekchick]

What everybody else already said. ;)

[brooksmoses]

Some sort of rambly thoughts, on one of these ideas:

The problem with "stop being overly self-critical" is that it doesn't strike me as the right type of goal for this sort of exercise; the success condition is too fuzzy. What counts as "overly"? Where's the line? It's all too easy to justify something as "well, that's not really overly self-critical", or conversely to feel guilty by calling something overly self-critical when it's a reasonable self-criticism. Which all means that, while it's a reasonable goal to strive for being less overly self-critical, it's not a goal that I see as fitting well into a rigid binary "stop doing this completely" framework.

But maybe that's just me; you might see it differently, or not be meaning this as quite so strictly binary as it sounds to me.

Another thing that occurs to me about it -- I think it's a hard thing to consciously stop doing, because being self-critical is itself a thought, and so by the time you consciously choose not to do it, you've already done it. This suggests to me that perhaps it might be worthwhile to rework the goal into something that can come after the thought, such as changing how you let the thought affect how you feel about yourself, perhaps.

I don't know if any of that is likely to be helpful or not, but I hope it is.