Keep focusing on one or two changes for quite a while, longer than you think. Keep at it for at least six months or a year, until you feel they are embedded into your life and a part of you. Keep going until it’s no longer an intentional habit, but almost automatic. Until you wake-up …
Once you’ve identified & committed to a couple of key changes, the most important thing you can ask yourself is: how will you turn these two changes into habit? In James Clear’s Atomic Habits, he draws on a wide range of sources to debunk myths about habit formation, emphasizing that it’s knowing that you follow through on your habits almost every …
Too often when we have moments of desire to make big changes, we mistakenly begin with enormous, impossible expectations. Often, we try to make too big a change or several all at once, only to realize it’s too difficult to maintain. Take the classic, short-lived new year’s resolution as an example. When we do this, …
Take a hard look at your present life and habits. What’s difficult? What are your biggest challenges? For me, the most obvious barrier at one point was social media. The habit of checking it was causing information overload, distraction and simply pulling me in too many directions. Whether social media or otherwise, is there something you’re …
Consider a prime time in your life and identity. Whether a particular moment, period, project, or trip, take a moment to reimagine it. Notice what made it great. One thing I noted about an ideal period in my life is that there was less complication. I was a student, surrounded by a few good people, …
