With the correct intentions year after year, why do we fail in our resolutions? I don’t know the answering machine, but I have two ideas. On the one hand, they are bold. There is nothing wrong with the big objectives, but to be sustainable, that last until the following year, the objectives must be feasible. Second, and I think this is the greatest culprit of what interrupts our success: we begin to pursue our goals without being aware of how our lives are currently seen or how we really spend our time.
Knowing your habits puts it in the driver’s seat and, by my experience, it helps you establish more appropriate and attainable objectives. So how do you realize? When tracking your habits. With all the energy full of New Year resolutions, habits monitoring may sound a bit passive. Who has time to spend tracking their habits when they really need to do is work towards the best version of Themelves?
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Because you start with the monitoring of habits, you are more likely to create achieveable objectives and, therefore, you do not have to start all next year. Progress must be preceded by consciousness, otherwise, you don’t know where you come from.
A few months ago, I started scrupulously my habits. I had an idea of how I spent my days, but I wanted to become clear about what I Reaxly I spent my time doing. I already knew that I spent most of the morning writing (I thought) and went to yoga several times a week (I thought). Only once I traced my habits, I saw the discrepancy between where I thought I spent my time and where. Reaxly I spent it. This consciousness has led me to incredible progress.
Only once I traced my habits, I saw the discrepancy between where I thought I spent my time and where. Reaxly I spent it. This consciousness has led me to incredible progress.
For all of you who intend to kill your new year resolutions this year, I suggest that you begin by tracking your habits. It is a change of life, I promise.
How habits follow -up
All you need is a notebook, a pen and a bit of dedication, because you must end every day reviewing your habits. (If you are the son of a person who needs more structure than a hand -drawn grid, there are also applications, tools and notebooks to help you track your habits).
To start, make a grid.
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The block of block as we use in the mathematics of the intermediate school is useful, so it does not have to draw the rows and columns. On one axis, write the habits you want to track, and on the other axis, number the days of the month. Because the first month or two is about realizing, I suggest all the things you can think of that you spend your time doing: watch television, go to aim, ask for pizza, exercise, move on Facebook, work, etc.
A note about the follow -up of how much it works: if you work from nine to five, I do not think it should track it because you know exactly how many hours a week you spend at work. Ifer, however, you stay late or work at home at night, even if it is only occasionally, it would track that. You may realize that you spend more time than you think you work outside your expected hours. I will explain how to track this in the next section.
Every day you make your habit, you get a verification mark (use an X).
You can track any habit you want, just make sure you have parameters around you. For example, if one of the habits you want to track is exercise, be sure to define what that means. Is it half an hour or an exercise like an hour for you? If not, then clarify that.
Personally, some of my habits look like this:
- Yoga (this is automatically a one -hour class)
- Ten or more stacess mines
- No television without children
If I do each of these, I get an X. On a very good day, I will get about six or seven of the eight habits that I am tracking in a certain month. And let me tell you that nothing is as rewarding as obtaining a complete column or xs.
Because I have been doing this for a few months, I am at the point where I am very aware of how my habits are, and now I have adjusted them so that I am working more about the things that fulfill me. That is the good thing about the monitoring of habits: you only need one month to give it a good idea of your current state of things. In month two, you can start working on things you aspire to, such as spending less time on your phone, for example, what most of us could do.
I use a moment called a moment that sends me alerts during the day on how much screen I have used, including the total minutes on my phone and the number of times I collect it. The application cools a goal of forty -two minutes or less on my phone per day, and that is why I effort me. If the use of your phone is something that intends to cut possible, using an application to identify how long it usually spends on it will help create more realistic objectives to reduce.
POSITIVE THINK
Something that works very well for me are habits for an X to be positive. In the example of working at home at night, the habit could be called “no night work”, and you would give yourself an X for every day you leave work at 5:00 and you have not occupied you again until the next morning. Or, if a habit that you would like to track is how to use is a single use plastic, for example, the habit could be “without single -use plastic”, and every day I would go without using it, it would get an X.
Approximately one month of monitoring of habits, will create a fascinating visual of what is spending time doing, all the XS are a good job. It could even notice trends; When you do more than one thing, you also do more or another, or vice versa. This awareness is essential to make adjustments to your habits.
Change your habits
The key is not to try to change their habits immediately, but first realizes them. Only take one or two months or monitor you understand exactly what your habits are. Once you realize, you can make informed adjustments to your habits and incorporate some resolutions for the New Year.
Forbes collaborator Brianna Wiest, suggests only to create some goals. “Choosing less than a handful of goals for the new decade does not mean that you are diluting your ambition,” she says. “In fact, quite the opposite. You are focusing and the glass in what you want to do, and channeling your energy to create a real and durable impact.”
I suggest just add one to two new habits per month, just to make sure you can achieve them. Radical to change your life from top to bottom, although attractive, is not sustainable.
Habits monitoring results
In the few months I have been tracking my habits, I already have some big steps to become the person I want to be. In addition to adjusting my schedule to get up at 5:00 every morning to write (the monitoring of the habit revealed that, unless I made this adjustment, it was very unlikely that it would happen at any time writing), I have ceased in Cise Ime Lesing Fies. When I started tracking, I wrote “no social networks” in the habits column; I wanted to see how I left without social networks. The answer was never. Never, that is, until I knew I would get an X during the days I did not waste time moving on Instagram.
In my first month, the month I intended to use simply for consciousness, not progress, I already adjusted my habit and I was eleven on social networks. The days without social hide in a row, but disperse through the month. I never thought I would go a third of the month without him. It turns out that it is easy! Not only that, but he gave me time to spend working to get XS in my other habits. (In the second month I spent fifteen days without him. The monitoring of the habit is Reaxly motivator).
There is little more admirable than a person aware of herself, and because of consciousness comes the ability to create objectives that will not only be maintained, but will also make you a better version of yourself.
Once you have a good idea of your current habits, you can emphasize and start working to create better habits. If you are not a great reader but it aspires to be, you might add twenty minutes of reading to your habits. Or maybe you want to try for minutes of daily meditation. If you need some inspiration, here is a great publication about the creation of positive habits. Whatever the habits you want to adopt, all you have to do is add them to your tracker and see how often I put them. It is almost muddy.
You can find that some habits will fall. I am no longer tracking the days I watch television without my son because they are very few and distant between that when those days happen, I consider them a gift. Nor am I tracking in or more minutes of stillness because every time I drive somewhere I keep my podcasts off by the first. It has become, wait,Habit.
There is little more admirable than a person aware of herself, and because of consciousness comes the ability to create objectives that will not only be maintained, but will also make you a better version of yourself. It is not arrogant when I say that the monitoring of habits has changed my life. I wish you the same this year.
Kolina Cicero is in love with the stories: read them, write them, get lost inside them. Other things that he loves include yoga, travel and bar cooking, Italian and writing classes. Your first book for children, Rosie and the Farm of HobbiesIt was published in July 2020.
