#driventodistraction

It has been a while since I posted anything due to distractions of family and work. And the temptation was very strong to just stop. I had lost the habit of posting. The routine of making sure that it got done. In our everyday lives it is very easy to lose sight of the routines and structures that keep good habits going. It isn't easy to maintain self discipline and stick at the things that require our own motivation and decision to keep going. Attending class, work, meetings are easier simply because there is a schedule that we are expected to keep and it is usually one that other people also monitor. When left to out own devises it can be hard work making sure we keep to the structures that we have created ourselves. After all, who is going to notice? Well, you do and the lack of achievement that results is a pretty good policeman.

An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.