This post is part of the online initiative Reverb10. You can find all of my Reverb10 posts here.

December 11 – 11 Things. What are 11 things your life doesn’t need in 2011? How will you go about eliminating them? How will getting rid of these 11 things change your life?

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Self-doubt

I have become much more secure of myself but I still doubt myself too much. Especially being that I am about to start my first full-time job, I want to eradicate self-doubt from my life. It makes me second-guess my decisions, my work, and what others say. It’s very counterproductive and I think that if I want my supervisor to believe I am doing a good job, I need to be believe it myself first.

Lethargy

Whenever I have too much time on my hands, instead of easily getting everything done, I become lethargic and frequently don’t get anything done or take forever to get things done. I think that having a job will take care of having too much time on my hands. I have found that being productive makes me feel much better than not doing anything.

Procrastination

I love putting things off till the last minute. While that worked okay when I was a college student, I think it won’t work so well now that I’ll be working. I want to eliminate procrastination not just from my professional life but also from my private life. I will have much less free time and need to use that time well, so I can get everything done that needs to be done and still have time for fun things.

Drama

I really cannot stand having drama in my life. Some people seem to thrive on it, but for me it just steals so much energy. I have done pretty well with avoiding drama in the past couple of years and want to keep it that way. Especially as work brings a whole new potential for drama.

Dependence

I know it is only natural to depend on others but what I do not what for 2011 is the kind of dependence I had on my parents up until now. I need the distance and I need for them to see that I am an adult. I am hoping that will change how they treat me.

Inactivity

I am a pretty lazy person. It’s hard to motivate myself to exercise. In the past few months I have been doing really well with a workout routine but moving will change a lot of things, e.g., I will no longer be able to take Zumba classes. But I am planning to find new things to do. I want to keep going swimming once a week and will start running again when the weather permits. I am also going to try to find exercise classes in the small town I’ll be living in, though I won’t be able to be very picky. And I want to order the Zumba DVDs and do Zumba at home once a week or so.

Overweight

Very closely related with the previous point, I want to eliminate being overweight from my life in 2011. I have already lost roughly 25lbs since August and I am planning to get to a healthy weight range within the next few months. But really, while losing weight is not easy, keeping the weight off is a lot harder than losing it, so I will have to work extra hard when I have reached my goal weight, especially as I will be sitting at a desk for most of the day.

Worrying

Typically I worry especially about things beyond my control. Which is particularly pointless as I have no influence over it in that case and worrying won’t change a thing except cost me time and energy that would better be used on something else.

Nailbiting

I have been biting my nails ever since I was a kid. I have tried to stop several times. I never last very long. I don’t have  a lot of vices but this is definitely one of them and I really don’t like it. To me it’s just not a very grown-up thing to do. I want to stop biting my nails and finally have nice-looking nails.

Late bedtimes

I’m a night owl and for the longest time have gone to bed late and gotten up late unless I had to get up early. Once I start working in a month, I will have to get up early every day, so I will hopefully get used to going to bed early because otherwise I’d be permanently sleep-deprived. I am hoping that I will simply slip into this new routine. So far it was hard to do that as I had no real reason (except my nagging parents) to make it a habit to get up early.

I know I am only at ten things in my list but in an attempt to work on #10 I am going to end it here. It is 1.30am already and tomorrow will be  a busy day so I want to be up early.