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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

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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Learn Each Day

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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The Obstacles In Creating A New Habit

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...

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Our Expectations Are The Problem

  • Expecting that life will turn out the way we want it to be is a sure-fire way to experience disappointment, because life does not check our expectations before happening.
  • If our unfulfilled expectations involve other people who have ‘failed’ to behave how we expect...

Self-Sabotage Trap: Perfectionism

  • Perfection, it seems, hinders progress as well as our wellness.
  • Our striving to be perfect makes us go to unattainable standards that tax us mentally and physically.
  • The heavy burden of making everything perfect makes us sabotage our health and well-being, draining ourse...

The illusion of perfect beginnings

In nature, we see perfect beginnings and endings. The sun rise and sets. Trees shed their leaves in winter, and blossom in summer.

One thought payoff we get from delaying our work for a specific time is the idea that if we begin something perfectly, it will go perf...

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