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How to set new goals
How to take action towards a new life
How to create a plan for change
The Obstacles In Creating A New Habit
When we decide to create a new habit — exercise, healthy eating, meditation, writing — we can get excited and optimistic, and have an idea of how it will go perfectly.
This is such a hopeful time! Unfortunately, reality has other plans.
Our perfect idea of how our new habit will go is pretty much never how it actually goes. We might do really well for a few days or even a couple of weeks, but inevitably we’ll miss a day or two because of tiredness, busyness, sickness, visitors, forgetting, etc. And then things get derailed, because of our perfect idea of how we hoped the habit would go.
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Learn Each Day
Each day becomes a lovely place of learning.
The “successful” days and “failure” days are not really binary results of success/failure, but instead a rich place of curiosity and learning.
Instead of competing with ourselves, we can glide through forming a new ...
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Your Perfect Expectations Is The Problem
Perfection is one of the main obstacles to forming habits. Our hopeful idea of how it will go, and then our disappointment and frustration with ourselves when it doesn’t go that way.
The idea that we should be super consistent and perfect in our habit attempts … derails us.
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Reality-Based Habit Change
What if we simply said, “Let me try to bring a daily ritual of doing X into my life, and be curious about what it will be like”?
So there doesn’t have to be a fantasy that it will go perfectly or brilliantly. We don’t know how it will be. But we can bring an intention to do...
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But, we tend to overlook where we are starting from because a realistic starting point is hard on our pride.
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