30 days to success
Steve Pavlina has an lifehack for creating an new habit or breaking an old one. Based on the idea of a 30-day trial period from shareware, he suggests, rather than focusing on behaviour change as a long-term fight, look at making it a “trial” for 30 days.
“Yet we often psyche ourselves out of getting started by mentally thinking about the change as something permanent — before we’ve even begun. It seems too overwhelming to think about making a big change and sticking with it every day for the rest of your life when you’re still habituated to doing the opposite. The more you think about the change as something permanent, the more you stay put.”
“But what if you thought about making the change only temporarily — say for 30 days — and then you’re free to go back to your old habits? That doesn’t seem so hard anymore. Exercise daily for just 30 days, then quit. Maintain a neatly organized desk for 30 days, then slack off. Read for an hour a day for 30 days, then go back to watching TV.”
In many ways, it’s just a variation on the one-day-at-a-time concept. Making or managing change is much easier when we look at it as small steps rather than huge leaps.
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