I Know What I Like

"I like believing in what I want to

Don't like no one to tell me what to do."

Those lyrics from the 1987 hit song "I Know What I Like" by Huey Lewis and the News sum up a feeling we all experience, at least from time to time. We develop patterns that guide us through our daily lives. Some of those patterns are informal – like whether we automatically put on both socks and then each shoe or if we fall into the sock-shoe-sock-shoe crowd – while others are much more rigid.

We often tend to create schedules that practically dominate our lives, some to the point that we have a hard time keeping tra...