Today I want to write down something about habits and change.
Some of you may think that letting go of a habit is hard and some of you may think that taking on a new habit is hard.
Well, all of you are correct. It depends from person to person how hard is to get rid or take on a new habit and it also depends on what that habit is. But we all know that there are bad habits and good ones and there are habits who get psychically obsessed and there are those that just attract you emotionally or you get used to doing a different action.
In any case if you want to get rid or take on a new habit I will show you a nice method that worked out for me. First of all you must change one thing at a time. You can’t change a lot of things at once. So what you have to do first is decide what you want to change then take a piece of paper and write that thing, action or habit down. After that decide in what do you want to change it or what does that take. For example, lets say you are a sedentary person and you want to exercise more, you will write down something like this ‘doing exercises 30 minutes in the morning’. After you decided your routine habit, action you have to decide when to do it, the time of the day. Now comes the fun part. You have to do this action, routine every day for 30 days.
Why for 30 days?
Well it takes 30 days for your mind and body to get used to this new action. After 30 days I guarantee you that you will do it without thinking and it won’t pass a day without doing it.
How does this work?
Imagine a very steep hill, almost vertical. The first 10 days represent this hill and you have to get to the top of it. You will need a lot of energy and a lot of will to get there, but it is worth the effort. In your first day your brain will tell you something like this ‘why do I need to do this? will this really help me? I was better of without forcing myself to do this’ but try to not listen to yourself and go on with your routine no matter how hard it is.
The next 10 days represent the top of that steep hill. This part is also hard because you have to gather all your strength to get over the top. This is a hard part, getting over the top, if you stop one day you’ll fall back down and have to begin all over again. Imagine a rocket trying to get out of the earths gravitational field, if it stops its propellers it falls back to the earth being attracted by the gravitational force. Imagine that rocket is you and if you stop for one day you’ll get back to your old habit.
The last 10 days will apparently seem to be the easier ones, but this is not true. Imagine those days like a smooth plain, a horizontal line. No ups no downs just going forward. But those last 10 days are important because they leave a mark on your body, they print this new habit, action, routine in your mind. It is true that you will do this new habit more natural in those last days but this doesn’t mean that you have to stop.
If you succeed in passing those 30 days you will do this thing natural every day without having to waste energy and without saying that this is hard or you don’t need this. Now all you have to do is get to work, change your bad habits into good habits, take on thing you like and live your life at your highest potential.
Remember, 30 days seem much, but this new habit may change your life and it can last a life time!
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