Day Twenty-one

Today I had no less than 4 things to achieve!
They were:

1. Give up the habit of dwelling on the past
2. Change some kind of regular activity you do
3. Turn off your mobile phone for a day
4. Say your own name out loud for a minute

Task one was easy - I'm not a very backward looking person. Unless I've been badly hurt, I reckon I do take quite a lot of responsibility for the way I behave now (probably too much in some cases because I tend to be plagued by a guilty conscience!) so I rarely think about the past, unless I'm regretting a choice I've made, but I know that most of those choices can be turned around.
Anyhow.
Task 2 was also achieved without too much fuss. I went shopping in the morning to buy a melon in order to cook a special birthday lunch for Dave. 3 things I don't normally do on Sundays, all wrapped up a neat package!
Task 3 was very hard. I really am quite addicted to my mobile. Not so much talking on it but checking my email and sending texts - those are the key culprits. I felt a bit jittery without it - but at the same time - a wonderful sense of freedom. It was nice. Though I did sometimes wonder if I was going to get 3 or 4 panicked voicemails with people trying to get hold of my for some emergency or other. Such an inflated sense of self-importance I have! I really should remember that I'm not at the centre of the universe.
Task 4 was a very weird thing to have to do and I didn't enjoy it at all. My name turned into a kind of non-word in my head - just meaningless noise - by the end of it. I found the whole thing strangely embarrassing.
So there we are. The end of stage 3.
I'm a bit nervous about weighing myself tomorrow.