it’s the same discipline!!! :)
Here I go again … I am supposed to be doing my paper … hmmm … papers! … and I decided to write a blog! This is me cramming … i.e. de-stress and do trivial things (a lot of trivial things …) first before the actual cramming! J I guess you can say I was delaying the inevitable … the mark of a true crammer! J
Anywho, I just wanted to ‘document’ my recent ‘achievement’ at work! You see, we have an ergo challenge at work … lower down mouse usage/increase keyboard usage = lower down mouse-to-keyboard ratio … the challenge was to go down to < 10%! J I didn’t mind it at first, didn’t join the bandwagon … to hell with the Php400 reward … but then eventually I got challenged (literally!) and I wanted to prove to myself that I can do it! … (plus I used to work with this guy in AZ and he almost never uses the mouse when he works in Excel which is really cool and really amazing … hmmm, he was good-looking … your typical boy-next-door all American guy … hmmm … yeah … cool and amazing! J hehe) Anywho, back to my story … I decided one day (that fateful ww29.0 day!) that I want to work on my mouse-to-keyboard ratio … the Php400 was a good motivation but it wasn’t all the money … I guess I was just desperate to prove to myself that I can do something should I put my mind into it! It’s been awhile since I had success as measurable and as tangible as that! … true, it’s a very simple, trivial success … but I guess discipline in achieving something … no matter how big or small that something is … is the same discipline … and I was so desperate to prove that it still exists within me! … (my many weight loss/dieting misadventures and mishaps is a blunt reminder of how undisciplined I am! J) … The moment I tried it, it was a pain … clicking a mouse is so much easier than doing tab-tab-tab until it reaches where I want it to go … doing Alt-O-C-A in excel to autofit a column is so, so inefficient vs. double-clicking on the column! I got the hang of it eventually … and my score on my first ‘mouse-to-keyboard serious’ week? 4.22%! … it came from 22.55%! I’ve repeatedly asked our admin to add a most-improved category in the challenge but she wouldn’t budge! … I am pretty sure I would get it! J hehe my second week? 2.73%! third week at 3.35%. The challenge is to keep at it for 4 consecutive weeks … this week is my fourth week … J
I guess what’s easy with this challenge is that there’s a tool that provides real-time visual feedback … it tells you when you’re going off … and when you’re doing good -– real-time! There’s immediate gratification and that is a great encouragement! Hmmm … if only losing weight is that easy … if only it’s as easy as tab-tab-tab and there goes 10lbs! J (Hmmm … for that to happen though … there needs to be a real-time visual tool to provide feedback … now that’s scary! Imagine your body in all its glorious chubbiness, displayed on a computer screen with graphic images showing whether you lost weight or gained weight – real time!) haha!
Oh well … I’ve proven to myself that I still have some amount of self-discipline within me … of course I have to finish the fourth week to make sure I do it all the way … and I have to go back to my paper/s after this blog so as not to disparage this self-discipline pronouncement! And yeah … I have to translate my mouse-to-keyboard ratio discipline to losing weight! Haha! I can see my conviction waning now!!! … hmmm, it’s the same discipline?! 
