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Strange things Andy does, #644
Jun. 15th, 2004 08:15 pmYou may have heard of affirmations. The idea is that if you say something enough times it attunes you to it, leading you to be more aware of things that could help you with your goal. Essentially, you choose a goal, formulate a phrase that encapsulates it and then repeat that phrase several times on multiple occasions during the day (i.e. 10 times in the morning, 10 times in the evening). For you Invisibles readers, this is similar to the way that Grant Morrison works with sigils - creating a focus point for the mind.
I always have a problem remembering my password at work, especially as I have to change it every 30 days. So I decided that the best thing to do was make them into affirmations. They haven't always worked, but they have proved useful as reminders. My password over the last few months has varied from "SleepMore" (when I really needed to) to "NewTeam" (when I wanted to transfer to a new team) to "DontSackMe" when the redundacies were first being announced. The first and third of those came out just fine, the second didn't, but it did push me to try and do something about it. And the sleeping more was definitely because I was reminding myself 15 times a day that I needed to.
Go on, give it a go next time you need to change your password. You might just be surprised...
I always have a problem remembering my password at work, especially as I have to change it every 30 days. So I decided that the best thing to do was make them into affirmations. They haven't always worked, but they have proved useful as reminders. My password over the last few months has varied from "SleepMore" (when I really needed to) to "NewTeam" (when I wanted to transfer to a new team) to "DontSackMe" when the redundacies were first being announced. The first and third of those came out just fine, the second didn't, but it did push me to try and do something about it. And the sleeping more was definitely because I was reminding myself 15 times a day that I needed to.
Go on, give it a go next time you need to change your password. You might just be surprised...
