Let's Start With Mini-mini Whiny Tiny Habits

 

We all heard about that 'BIG BANG' Theory of this universe and NOT surprisingly, a plurality of us do subscribe to that.  WHICH is NOT wrong BTW BUT for me, that reflects our human nature to go for something BIG, something MAJOR.  And IF and WHEN we need to change and improve our habits, much as we are aware of our frailties and 'chinks in our armor', we would at times aim for those 'BIG TIME' change of habits BUT WHAT's the risk for that approach?  It is that higher rate of probability that we will fail in those attempts WHEN the goal is quite lofty and sometimes aggressive💥💥💥

And ever since we all got hit with that dreadful Covid-19 Pandemic, from my viewfinder, I did witness that a good number of our population have hardly reached that 'full recovery' state in their daily lives.  I can feel exhaustion, NOT physically BUT mentally. A fatigue that NO amount of sleep can fix.  And I [wrongly] thought that all it takes is MORE sleep, LESS screen time and maybe meditation.  BUT at the end, I realized that those required MORE time, MORE willpower and many times, we need MORE of both💚💛💜

I realized one thing though and that is, making huge changes all at once would be daunting to most of us, if NOT to all [and I can attest that I've seen that NOT only to people close enough to me BUT even to my own self] WHEN we attempted one too many changes all in one fell swoop.  At that point of my realizations, I also realized that I was kind of clutching on straws so I went back to the drawing board and did my own list of changes I'd like to see coming to fruition in my life [and NOT just in my dreams akin to that figment of my endless imaginations!!!

WHAT was an eye-opener to me during those times WHEN I was kind of clutching on straws was that spiel from psychologists WHO claim that fear only motivates us for the short time and if it happens that one of the changes we want to make in our life is based on fear, we need to reposition it in a way such that it will lead us to think about the positive outcome instead of avoiding that dreaded negative outcome😡😡😡

Our takeaway:  Let us figure out the TINY HABITS WHICH we can adopt and move towards the bigger changes we do envision along the way.  And YES, make those TINY HABITS doable enough, and it has to be HABITS we can truly stick with, LIKE waking up every 5am to give us enough time to prepare for our daily routines, LIKE that 20-minute daily exercise as a bare minimum.  Bottomline here is that we are NOT in a competition BUT we need to retrain our brain and consistently change our HABITS for a week, for a month, for every month thereafter, building our own confidence and reinforcing and sustaining those short gains.  So, LET'S START WITH MINI-MINI WHINY TINY HABITS, dude???