Recycling like I’m in the tour de frans

I’m currently reading atomic habits and after each chapter the author gives us assignments. Some chapters he wants us to make a list of our bad habits and a time and place where we will change that habit. It’s funny though because the book is not cheap. It's one of the New York Times best sellers and he charged accordingly. Meanwhile I’m writing half the book on my own time, trying my best to quit some of my bad habits like jaywalking or putting recycling stuff in the trash. If you want to create a new habit you first have to define who you want to be. How will you change your identity so your new habits you have established for yourself can fit in. For me my identity is someone who disrupts the stigma! I am a creative as well. So I might plan a flash mob, but I turn it on its head and the song we are dancing to is “Man, I feel like a Woman” and many of the dance moves depict men beating women up in the street. Understanding this aspect of my identity and working on adding the idea that I also want to be a cog is a challenge I am prepared to take. I am a person who loves hard. My favorite movies I will watch over and over again. I make inside jokes with me and the characters in the film, because my identity thinks they are real. I could fit recycling in by maybe making an inside joke with Rose from Titanic. I could be like “I see you recycling some of your sex moves with your husband as with Jack too! Yeah, thats right, friend!” It's kinda vulgar, but that’s not really the point. The point is to make it memorable. Now when I picture Rose throwing it back on Jack and then on Cal too. I think about recycling. That way when I inevitably drift off to sea like Jack in the Titanic, I can freeze knowing that I was a steady pillar of society that looked both ways before crossing the street even when there were no cars and the walking sign was on, and I recycled too. Also once you start adopting new habits that help you and others, they spread like wildfire. There are infinite new things for me to start doing once I get the formula down of creating habits that stick. Walking down the street I could start giving people my finger guns and say “looking good today!”   It could be a catchphrase that slingshots me into a campaign for a governing body position. You see Zoey you think It’s the “looking good today” chick. It's the small ripples, the tiny changes we make that create the impact of level 8 earthquakes. Knocking people’s houses down, bursting pipes, so we can make room for a parking lot and new good looking malls that will bring 1000s of jobs. People won’t need their demolished homes as much anymore, because they’ll be working so much that they’ll really only need a place to sleep. I’m not saying that I am definitely running for office, but I know I have the potential to create an airtight campaign if I stick to these new habits. Here's one: throwing gum into the trash can, not just on the bottoms of chairs at restaurants. These things just come out of me with no warning. With my expensive atomic habits book, I will be invincible. No feat is too great for me once I am armed with the tools like creating to-do lists and doing the “point and do strategy”. The point and do strategy is doing the habit, but also pointing when you do it. This for some reason makes you less likely to make mistakes if you are a train conductor in Japan. For my situation it helped me out a lot when I was crossing the road earlier. I was pointing to the crossing sign, making sure all cars saw me as I was crossing the road, making it memorable for me and the people around me. Next time I do so I will not wear a reflective vest. Many people confused me with a crossing guard and ran straight into the poll I was pointing to.  Maybe this year will bring less accidents too. I swear everywhere I go I am learning from my mistakes like crazy. Each time I touch the ancient art at the museum or lean on the fire alarm, I quickly learn every cost has a consequence. Whether it's two days of community service or a 500 dollar fine. But who better to run for a governing position than the person all too familiar with all the ways a person can fail in society and the punishments associated with said failures. So keep your head up when crossing the street next time because you might soon see a big billboard with my face and the words “Looking good today” written with recycled markers from the daycare, which would be the first building to be demolished for a new smoothie hut!