I have not consciously given anything up for lent. I have too many big things going on in life to focus on something like that.
But coincidentally, it happens that I am currently trying to break a nail-biting habit (again). So can I claim that as being for lent, even if it wasn't planned that way?
My current system is to measure my nails every day, and record the data with microsoft excel. I then plot charts of individual nail length, the total length, average growth rates, best and worst nails, bites, etc. this gives me the motivation to not bite, not wanting a downward kink in the graph.
It is going really well, with an average increase of 3.5 mm since I started and an average net growth rate if about 0.42 mm. per week.
Of course this can't go on forever. There will have to come a time when I start cutting them and maintain them at a relatively constant length. Then the charts will get boring and meaningless, I will louse motivation, and bite again.
But lent will be over by then, so that makes it OK ..... ?
(Doing something similar with other more personal habits, also with some success, but that is too private to tell you about)
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