Maintaining Focus

I get bored very easily. I always need to change my stimuli, or I find I get very restless and irritable. I always carry around a book, a cell-phone, and a pad of paper so I never lack a variety of different things to do. Being bored is one of the worst feelings in the world, and only leads to other, more negative emotions like sadness, anger, jealousy, etc. So I try to keep busy.

Whenever I have tried to start adding a new habit, challenge or what have you, I find I start off very strong, and am very much able to maintain it. At least, at first. The very trickiest thing, as some of you know,  is starting anything. I usually don't have any problems with that, more maintaining. I Can make a concentrated effort for awhile, but then it's as though I simply run out of steam at some point. Having recently had this epiphany, I realize it's the reason I kind of give up on things I start. For instance, I recently tried to do National Novel Writing Month and found I hit a wall in the process around day 21 or so. It's the same with going sugarless: I reach a point where the novelty starts to wear off and I am simply bored of it. 

This doesn't mean I've given up, but it's tempting. Too tempting. I'm starting to understand why people not only have trouble starting things, but also quitting things. Really, it could go either way. Trying to form a new habit is just as difficult as trying to break an old one. It only happens with repetition. 

Or maybe the sugar is making me crazy.