I have been busy working on a new look for the website. I spent a lot of time programming to get things working correctly. With a week and a half of long hours, I can feel the my eyesight getting weaker and blurrier. I fell back into one bad habit that I wanted to break. I worked long and hard to get the task done, and I compromised my eyesight to do it. It would have been better if I had looked away every few minutes and focused on something far away. In my haste to get it done, I forgot to take care of my eyes. It’s so easy to fall back into our old routines. I have been exercising my eyes for over a year, but somehow, I didn’t follow the few simple new habits that I was practicing.

Good habits I want when I’m working:

• every ten minutes, I scan the room and trace some patterns
• every half hour, I would close my eyes and massage around the eyes
• every hour, I would take a break and relax my eyes, maybe look out the window

It’s such a simple thing to do, but I didn’t do it. Maybe, I haven’t worked hard enough to form this habit. I’ll try harder to break this bad habit replacing it with this new habit.