You read a self-help book, & think to yourself, “Wow, these are great ideas! I’m so inspired! I’m going to embrace the challenge of following all of this advice!”
Then you try to implement it. You discover that it’s complicated, difficult, & time-consuming. The actual challenge of doing what the book recommends is much harder than it was in your mind.
Maybe you keep it up for a few days. But then you get too busy, or distracted, and don’t get around to following the book’s suggestions.
Or perhaps you never implement the strategies at all. You think they’re great, & you want to do them, & you’ll definitely start them “soon.” But “soon” never comes.
Change can be hard.
You have to overcome deeply ingrained habits, which means battling your own brain’s neural pathways.
However, the point of self-improvement is to achieve your goals, live a better life, be happier & more fulfilled.
Ultimately, for some change to better your life in the long term, you have to build it into a habit. Once it’s a habit, it will become automatic.
To make something into a habit, you have to repeat it long enough to build neural pathways in your brain. This probably will take months.
Find improvements that can be done in a few minutes a day, or no time, or actually give you time back.
Find easy wins. Small things that won’t be a challenge to do consistently, that will make your life better in some way!
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