In order to change habits, you need to change how you think about yourself
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In Positive Psychology An Introduction Martin Seligman writes…
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In Positive Psychology: An Introduction, Martin Seligman writes about the time he was weeding in the garden with his five-year-old daughter.
He yelled at her because she was throwing weeds into the air and generally fooling around. She ran away and then came back.
According to the article, here’s what happened next:
“Daddy, I want to talk to you.”
“Yes, Nikki?”
“Daddy, do you remember before my fifth birthday?
“From the time I was three to the time I was five, I was a whiner. I whined every day. When I turned five, I decided not to whine anymore. That was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. And if I can stop whining, you can stop being such a grouch.”
At that moment, Seligman resolved to change.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/positive-2016-heres-how-bruce-kasanoff
Diets don’t work tomorrow But every diet…
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“Diets don’t work tomorrow. But every diet works.
Habits don’t change in a day. But 1% a day makes every habit work. Every.
The reason is: they work if you do a little each day. If you relax and give yourself permission to only improve a little each day, then a good habit works.
It’s permission to improve. It’s also permission to fail. Because when you first start something, you’re on day one.
If you want to succeed at anything, you have to give yourself permission to fail twice as much as you thought you would.”
“Improve a little each day. It compounds. When 1% compounds every day, it doubles every 72 days, not every 100 days. Compounding tiny excellence is what creates big excellence.
You can’t be a master in one day. You have to improve a little every day.
Picasso created 2 works of art a day. That’s 50,000 in a lifetime. It adds up.”
“Actions are outside of the head or body. Take 1% action per day. …”
“…It doesn’t happen in one day. There are no goals. There’s only practice. Practice never makes perfect. Practice makes happy. Practice makes habits.”
https://medium.com/life-learning/the-1-rule-for-creating-all-habits-53aa3f10bc5d