Before we go further, let’s draw the line. Somethings your love for those you will manage something or at-least you will feel the longing. The tasks we are discussing here are for those of us who don’t like exercising or reading or writing or maybe spending time on meditation 🧘‍♂️ . We like the idea of us doing it but are not doing it.See the trend? Let’s do some basic maths. 1 Pushup daily * 365 Days. 1 page * 365 days. 5 lines * 365. Somedays we can even get lucky and pull twice of that and on some days we might feel like doing it three times. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves but what about five times. Maybe? Somedays!Get up-> Search for the specs-> Do one Pushup -> Read one Page ->Do the Scroll of doom on phoneThe prize at the end keeps us motivated to go with the flow. Brain is excited to reach the other side and salvage its prize. Suddenly, when the prize and task association is formed we will start looking forward to it.

Little changes big gains

<img alt="Sunny Aditya" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/500/0*A4fONQGTRJEjg3W" width="48" height="48"><BLOCKQUOTE>“Clickbait article spotted” — your brain</BLOCKQUOTE>A lot of us run away from the concept of reading, studying,. or exercising. Some of us are too busy for them. Some of us are overburdened at the office. Some are crumbling under the house chores. Some are scoring relationship goals but missing on rest. The list is endless. Excuses? No, they are very genuine problems. So how? Can we read more, study more, exercise more, or in general find time for things we know are good for us.Before we go further, let’s draw the line. Somethings your love for those you will manage something or at-least you will feel the longing. The tasks we are discussing here are for those of us who don’t like exercising or reading or writing or maybe spending time on meditation 🧘‍♂️ . We like the idea of us doing it but are not doing it.<h1 data-selectable-paragraph="">Start Small</h1><figure><img alt="Image for post" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/500/0*40twgh_otGglkMXb" width="676" height="1014"><figcaption class="hm hn cy cw cx ho hp cd b ez cf gb" data-selectable-paragraph="" dir="ltr">Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@hcatherinephoto?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral" class="cj hq" rel="noopener nofollow" dir="ltr">Hayley Catherine</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral" class="cj hq" rel="noopener nofollow" dir="ltr">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure>Came across this concept in an online post. If only I can remember and link the author here, we could be done by now. Then it was reiterated by various people who can be easily called leading figures in their respective fields. Everyone reflected on this either directly or indirectly.Q. Can you do 50 pushups for 90 days? A. Maybe not.Q. Can you do 1 pushup for 90 days? A. Why not?Q. Can you write 10 pages for 90 days? A. Not me.<BLOCKQUOTE>When in doubt, just take the next small step — Paulo Coelho</BLOCKQUOTE>Q. Can you write 5 lines for 90 days? A. I can try that!Q. Can you read 25 pages daily for 90 days? A. I don’t have the time.Q. Can you pull off reading 1 page daily for 90 days? A. 💯See the trend? Let’s do some basic maths. 1 Pushup daily * 365 Days. 1 page * 365 days. 5 lines * 365. Somedays we can even get lucky and pull twice of that and on some days we might feel like doing it three times. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves but what about five times. Maybe? Somedays!Just stop and imagine yourself doing this. By the time you are done, you would have read at least one book. Wrote a mini ebook or kickstarted a blog. Be in a better shape.<h1 data-selectable-paragraph="">Be Consistent</h1><figcaption>Mark them</figcaption><BLOCKQUOTE>Ultra kill! — Unreal Tournament</BLOCKQUOTE>Hope someone gets the reference. The streak is everything. It is the heart of our doing it small adventure. Everyday we show-up, we tell ourselves this can be done. The point of keeping it small is to remove the cognitive load of size. Streak is the habit chain we are forming. By doing it again and again we are training ourselves to get into a routine.The pattern here is forming a routine and not looking for motivation. Noticed we used 90 days to highlight the examples.<a href="https://jamesclear.com/new-habit" rel="noopener nofollow" dir="ltr">James clear points to research, saying </a>“ On average, it takes more than 2 months before a new behavior becomes automatic — 66 days to be exact.”We are taking the safe route and gunning for 90 days to form a new habit.<h1 data-selectable-paragraph="">Chain Them</h1><figure><img alt="Image for post" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/500/0*TAJJRsms1vp4my_O" width="785" height="523"><figcaption class="hm hn cy cw cx ho hp cd b ez cf gb" data-selectable-paragraph="" dir="ltr">Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@nadir_syzygy?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral" class="cj hq" rel="noopener nofollow" dir="ltr">Nadir sYzYgY</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral" class="cj hq" rel="noopener nofollow" dir="ltr">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure>What is your routine when you wake up?What is your routine when you reach home post office/college?There is a pattern to it and our brain likes to do it the same way most of the days.Get in -&gt; Hit the Tv On-&gt; Change clothes -&gt; Hungry 🍗Get up-&gt; Search for the specs-&gt; Do the Scroll of doom on phoneYou get the drift. What we need to do now is take step back and hook our new habit in the chain.Get up-&gt; Search for the specs-&gt; Read one Page -&gt;Do the Scroll of doom on phoneGet up-&gt; Search for the specs-&gt; Do one Pushup -&gt;Do the Scroll of doom on phoneDone for the day. So simple. It will become automatic after a while. Like riding a cycle becomes. How about expanding the chain?Get up-&gt; Search for the specs-&gt; Do one Pushup -&gt; Read one Page -&gt;Do the Scroll of doom on phone<h1 data-selectable-paragraph="">Reward yourself</h1>You see in the chain, we still have the doom scroll. World is not going to end if we don’t check the phone. But until we find our highs in other finer things in life. Instagram/FB/Whatsapp take my money. Not my data 😂.The prize at the end keeps us motivated to go with the flow. Brain is excited to reach the other side and salvage its prize. Suddenly, when the prize and task association is formed we will start looking forward to it.Time to put these small concepts in practice.Wait, we missed out procrastination.Cool! How about taking these concepts and applying it other areas. Mystical Pomodoro Technique — Work for x minutes and take a break of y minutes preferably doing something you enjoy. Actually whatever we discussed helps us workaround procrastination too. Start small, don’t break the streak and chain things. And, procrastination is not that bad. Planning to write on How can we learn better ? Interested. Let me know.If you finally start reading or want to start with a book try this book <a href="https://www.amazon.in/Atomic-Habits-James-Clear/dp/1847941834/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=atomic+habits&amp;qid=1610990079&amp;sr=8-1" rel="noopener nofollow" dir="ltr">Atomic Habits</a>

A lot of us run away from the concept of reading, studying,. or exercising. Some of us are too busy for them. Some of us are overburdened at the office. Some are crumbling under the house chores…

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Productivity

timemanagement

Time Management

“Clickbait article spotted” — your brain

A lot of us run away from the concept of reading, studying,. or exercising. Some of us are too busy for them. Some of us are overburdened at the office. Some are crumbling under the house chores. Some are scoring relationship goals but missing on rest. The list is endless. Excuses? No, they are very genuine problems. So how? Can we read more, study more, exercise more, or in general find time for things we know are good for us.

Before we go further, let’s draw the line. Somethings your love for those you will manage something or at-least you will feel the longing. The tasks we are discussing here are for those of us who don’t like exercising or reading or writing or maybe spending time on meditation 🧘‍♂️ . We like the idea of us doing it but are not doing it.

Came across this concept in an online post. If only I can remember and link the author here, we could be done by now. Then it was reiterated by various people who can be easily called leading figures in their respective fields. Everyone reflected on this either directly or indirectly.

Q. Can you do 50 pushups for 90 days? A. Maybe not.

Q. Can you do 1 pushup for 90 days? A. Why not?

Q. Can you write 10 pages for 90 days? A. Not me.

When in doubt, just take the next small step — Paulo Coelho

Q. Can you write 5 lines for 90 days? A. I can try that!

Q. Can you read 25 pages daily for 90 days? A. I don’t have the time.

Q. Can you pull off reading 1 page daily for 90 days? A. 💯

See the trend? Let’s do some basic maths. 1 Pushup daily * 365 Days. 1 page * 365 days. 5 lines * 365. Somedays we can even get lucky and pull twice of that and on some days we might feel like doing it three times. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves but what about five times. Maybe? Somedays!

Just stop and imagine yourself doing this. By the time you are done, you would have read at least one book. Wrote a mini ebook or kickstarted a blog. Be in a better shape.

Ultra kill! — Unreal Tournament

Hope someone gets the reference. The streak is everything. It is the heart of our doing it small adventure. Everyday we show-up, we tell ourselves this can be done. The point of keeping it small is to remove the cognitive load of size. Streak is the habit chain we are forming. By doing it again and again we are training ourselves to get into a routine.

The pattern here is forming a routine and not looking for motivation. Noticed we used 90 days to highlight the examples.

<a href="https://jamesclear.com/new-habit">James clear points to research, saying </a>“ On average, it takes more than 2 months before a new behavior becomes automatic — 66 days to be exact.”

We are taking the safe route and gunning for 90 days to form a new habit.

What is your routine when you wake up?

What is your routine when you reach home post office/college?

There is a pattern to it and our brain likes to do it the same way most of the days.

Get in -> Hit the Tv On-> Change clothes -> Hungry 🍗

Get up-> Search for the specs-> Do the Scroll of doom on phone

You get the drift. What we need to do now is take step back and hook our new habit in the chain.

Get up-> Search for the specs-> Read one Page ->Do the Scroll of doom on phone

Get up-> Search for the specs-> Do one Pushup ->Do the Scroll of doom on phone

Done for the day. So simple. It will become automatic after a while. Like riding a cycle becomes. How about expanding the chain?

Get up-> Search for the specs-> Do one Pushup -> Read one Page ->Do the Scroll of doom on phone

You see in the chain, we still have the doom scroll. World is not going to end if we don’t check the phone. But until we find our highs in other finer things in life. Instagram/FB/Whatsapp take my money. Not my data 😂.

The prize at the end keeps us motivated to go with the flow. Brain is excited to reach the other side and salvage its prize. Suddenly, when the prize and task association is formed we will start looking forward to it.

Time to put these small concepts in practice.

Wait, we missed out procrastination .

Cool! How about taking these concepts and applying it other areas. Mystical Pomodoro Technique — Work for x minutes and take a break of y minutes preferably doing something you enjoy. Actually whatever we discussed helps us workaround procrastination too. Start small, don’t break the streak and chain things. And, procrastination is not that bad. Planning to write on How can we learn better ? Interested. Let me know.

If you finally start reading or want to start with a book try this book <a href="https://www.amazon.in/Atomic-Habits-James-Clear/dp/1847941834/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=atomic+habits&qid=1610990079&sr=8-1">Atomic Habits </a>

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