Change

Every now and then we tell ourselves we must change or get rid of bad habits. I take some classes recently. My lawn bowl coach asked me to change the way I hold the ball to prevent the ball skewing outward. The golf coach was really uncool, strict and ruthlessly told me I was wrong at this and that. I was a bit confused and wondered when I was right. I know I have to change the way I play the ball game. I've got a mental picture of the right way of doing so but changes are not something happened in a night's time. Changing the way to do is even harder than learning things from scratches because it's become a habit. But the lawn bowl teacher probably found a more approachable way to tell me so.

The fitness class teacher says in a talk that "you must exercise, not you should." Didn't we tell ourselves we must do certain things every day? I bet the couch just makes us too comfy.

Then I watched a programme about helping out some fussy eaters in the UK. Can you imaging someone only eats yellow food, or someone never tastes any vegetables? The experts take changes slow and ask these extremely picky eaters to have a step forward every time. Some progress, some do not. But it's amazing to see how those exercises that the experts came up with, like blindfolding people's eyes to block off their "visual fears" to try something new, inviting them to make cakes and ice creams with the ingredients they put off, demanding them to pick some fresh meat from an organic farm that they may try and letting someone drive blindfolded by listening to the direction from other person to tackle the control issue, etc.

Maybe we need more creative ways to inspire us into changes. The book is just not enough.