Studying Your Actual Behaviors – Steve Pavlina. Observing your behaviors and responses like a scientist observing apes in the jungle can be useful for spotting opportunities for growth and improvement.
While it’s tempting to see yourself as a conscious human being making fresh decisions each day, you can also benefit by seeing yourself like an animal or robot responding to stimuli in a pre-programmed or instinctual manner. Observe your own stimulus-response patterns, as if you never really had a choice in between. Then consider that you can get different behaviors from yourself if you change the stimuli. Give yourself different inputs, and watch your behaviors change automatically. Pondering a 365-Day Challenge for 2021 – Steve Pavlina. Are you thinking about doing a 365-day challenge for 2021?
I’m already thinking about doing another one. I still have 4 weeks left on my 2020 daily blogging challenge, which actually started on December 24, 2019. It feels like an easy coast to the finish line after blogging for 345 days in a row. Doing something every day for a year can be transformational, even if you stop after that year, because it creates an empowering reference experience. How Many Days Can You Go Without Checking Email or Social Media? – Steve Pavlina.
Several weeks ago I decided to try a simple experiment.
I opted to check email and social media accounts only three times in a week. I wanted to see what effect this less frequent, non-daily checking would have on my productivity and social connections. Many years ago when the web was a lot smaller and email was less popular, this would have been no big deal. In the mid 1990s I could get away with checking email a few times a week, even in business. Sliding Bad Habits Into Good Ones – Steve Pavlina. As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on Honoring Your Hidden Goals, consider that hidden goals are similar to hidden habits.
In each case the hidden aspect means that some part of you is finding a way to meet a need or desire that you’re not necessarily acknowledging. When you identify hidden habits, you can also trace them back to their needs and desires, and then you can devise more deliberate ways to satisfy those desires. It’s likely you have some habits you may identify as bad or problematic, but they’re actually serving you well. Think of a bad habit as a good habit in disguise – as a habit with some negative side effects. For instance, I love cuddling my wife in bed, but this desire can easily make me want to linger in bed longer each morning, such as by sleeping in super late – like until 6:30am or even an ungodly 7am.
Introduction - Habitual Mastery (Series) - Scott H Young. Choose: Growth or Consistency - Scott H Young. Why is it So Hard to Create Permanent Habits? - Scott H Young. Habit Change Is Like Chess – Steve Pavlina. Changing a habit is like playing a game of chess.
In chess there’s an early game, a middle game, and an endgame. The same is true for habit change. Many people try to change their habits by skipping straight to the endgame. They dive in and commit themselves to making the change happen right away. This is what people do when they make a New Year’s Resolution. SkillSets. Steve Pavlina Blog. Scott Young blog. Seven Habits that Seem Lazy (but Actually Let You Get More Done) - Scott H Young. How to Maintain Not-Quite-Daily Habits – Steve Pavlina. Have you ever fallen off track while trying to install or maintain a not-quite-daily habit such as exercising 3-4 days a week or getting up at 5am on weekdays?
This article will share some simple ideas to help you maintain such habits more easily. If you perform a certain task every day for weeks on end, it’s usually pretty easy to maintain. However, once you take a day or two off, it can be harder to start up again on your next “on” day. For example, if you get up early every weekday and then sleep in late on Saturday and Sunday, waking up Monday morning often feels harder, and you’re more likely to oversleep. Before you know it, you’ve blown your positive habit completely, and somehow every day has become an off day. Expo Views. The 5 Productive Morning Routines Of Highly Effective People. Ah, mornings.
A good morning routine can really set the productivity tone for the rest of the day. Some days you’re dialed into every detail: cooking a big breakfast, experimenting with new hairstyles, trying to meditate. Other days… well, you shirk routine and slip into the office through the backdoor with yesterday’s shirt on and a breath of fresh air for breakfast. It happens. Mindfulness. Adam Grant: The surprising habits of original thinkers. Dharma Damma Dusk. Organization Capabilities. Productivity 2021. Journaling Advances. Quotable. Ritual Behaviors.