What did I come home to?

 

But, Rob, your blog has gone!

One minute you can comment on it, the next minute you can't, the next minute it has gone.

It has been going like this for a while.

Looks like my dry wit is going to be wasted.

Is this Peter's doing?

I know he posted some clips of a women taking the piss out of Jesus, which he is totally allowed to do.

Hey, it was on Peter's blog. Robert, after all, is allowed to post bullshit about Hell.

Ah well. 

Let's carry on. 

While I was in hell hospital, I read quite a bit of a book called Atomic Habits. It was all about a 'method' I had already started using in my violin practice. Please stay with me Peter, this book is not about playing the violin. 

People like to talk about goals, but how many actually achieve them?

This book is about creating, and changing, short little habits. My wife, for example, sometimes gets stressed when driving on busy roads. Here's a new habit that will help her - "I avoid stress. If something stresses me, I don't go there." Hey, there's always the bus or the train, or me to drive her.

She must make this little habit part of her life by saying it most days. Over time, say a year, this little habit can make a huge difference to her life.

So, instead of constantly thinking of an overall goal, you set up little habits that will give you little skills that will help your long-term goal to be achievable. 

Trust me, it really works. It has already helped my violin playing and my approach to practising. I've isolated little things that are very important to practise. Doing an hour's practice, while watching the clock to see when you can finish is not concentrated practice. Spending ten minutes, or less, really analyzing major and minor chords and double stops is. However, you need to do it nearly every day. That's the trick. You're making it part of your approach to the instrument.

Who knows, maybe Rob reduced his stress by removing his blog? "Atheists are stressing me. I'll stay away from them and their wrong and sinful ideas."

To Peter:

Carry on. I like your blog, and you are a very thoughtful and well-read person. You certainly deserved that seat in 3P in 1966. Now we just need to work on your jokes.

Ciao tutti.