Each year one vicious habit rooted out

Now that we're more than halfway into the second month of the year, you've probably given up on all your New Year's resolutions. Have no fear--there is still time to get your New Year's resolutions back on track! Since I'm going to be in non-blogging status for the next several days, I wanted to leave you with a few tips on how to re-motivate yourself to be a better person in 2007.

Things you can do to improve your life:

Improve your Efficiency

There are many options here, more than I can name in an efficient period of time. Here are just a few:

- Get a DVR, and watch TV on fast forward. Why waste 1, 2, or 3 hours of your time watching the latest television shows, when you could get the same watching done in a fraction of the time? Tape everything, and watch it on fast forward! This works especially well with those weight loss shows. The person starts out slightly overweight, and after 5 minutes on fast forward, they're slim and slender! It's also good for those home decoration shows--ugly house to amazingly decorative home in 5 minutes.
- Like music, but have more songs than you can reasonably listen to within a week? I have a solution to that as well! Most people don't realize that they can listen to ITunes and Windows Media Player at the same time. It works great--you can pack even more of your favorite music into your day. It's like having your own randomized mashups.

Exercise

- This is something that's on pretty much everyone's list. You may not have heard of this newfangled multitasking exercise that is popular in Japan. They have some wonderful exercise videos that feature workouts plus English language tips and tricks. I strongly recommend this one; it just gets better and better. You just have to stick with it thru some of the monotony. Once you get to 1:05 or 1:50 you'll be hooked.

Food/Diet

We can't talk about exercise without talking about food/diet. Since your new multitasking workout plan is going to burn lots of calories, you can eat whatever you want. Here are some options that have low calories, low fat content, and delicious sounding ingredients. Oh, wait; no, they don't. Check it out:

- Ultimate Comfort Food
- The Mighty Chicken Stuff - Ramen noodles??
- Fried Chicken Tenders
- Simple Malaysian Fried Chicken - Um, I went to Malaysia. The people there are pretty skinny. How, if they eat this stuff???
- Dessert

Participate in a Volunteer Activity

After simplifying your life with multitasking workouts and abbreviated TV watching/music listening sessions, you'll have lots of time to dedicate to volunteer work. So now I offer you the world's easiest volunteering job: it's called the Great Backyard Bird Count, which is going on this weekend. All you have to do is sit in your house and look out the window. It's only a 15-minute commitment. If you can't handle that, you are either way too busy or way too lazy. Granted, you do have to try to identify birds. But hey, some of us enjoy that. Think of this as resume building experience...