Ways to change your Habits — Positive Life
Did you know?
A survey showed that the habit of self-acceptance provided the most reported happiness out of the other popular daily habits.
Why changes your habits?
“Success is the product of daily habits.”
– Atomic Habits: An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones
Have you ever wondered why you are never succeeding?
Just take a look at your habits!
If you want to succeed, you have got to change your habits.
For example, say you want to become a successful blogger, you have to build the habit of writing blogs.
Why do most people never succeed in building great habits?
The reason most people fail at building lasting great habits is that they begin hard, I mean, they do not begin easily or increase the difficulty gradually.
People do not know how their comfort zone works.
How does the comfort zone work?
Imagine you have a rubber band, now what happens to a rubber band?
It expands, and shrinks!
Your comfort zone is just like a rubber band.
Expand too much, and it will get ripped.
Expand gradually, and it will become large!
Note: Rubber bands do have an expansion limit, while comfort zones do not.
Stop expanding and leave it, it will shrink.
Keep holding it, and it will stay as it is.
What I am trying to explain is:
“When you are first starting a habit, take it easy, increase the difficulty gradually, otherwise you will burn out and stop.
The 2-minute rule is a very powerful habit-building technique.
“When you are first starting a habit, it shouldn’t take more than 2 minutes.”
The 2-minute rule is a very powerful and effective way to start new habits, all you have to do is to scale down your new habits so that they take only 2 minutes, you can increase the difficulty in the future when you feel like you do not need a reminder to do the behaviour anymore when it finally becomes a habit.
You will find that nearly any habit can be scaled down into a two-minute version:
- “Read before bed each night” becomes “Read one page.”
- “Do thirty minutes of yoga” becomes “Take out my yoga mat.”
- Practice meditation becomes “Download the Solutinefor the right steps.”
- “Study for class” becomes “Open my notes.”
- “Fold the laundry” becomes “Fold one pair of socks.”
- “Run three miles” becomes “Tie my running shoes.”
- “Write a blogpost” becomes “Write a small paragraph.”
And if you cannot scale it down to 2 minutes, just scale it down.
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