You’ll get home from work on a Tuesday night, it’s 5:09pm and your cat Tammy rushes to the front door to greet you with a vocal “hello” in cat language. You stumble through the door with a buzzing fatigue hanging over your shoulder, it’s been a long day. You put your belongings on the little wooden chair in the corner, the one you have always had and feel a bit lighter. Now it’s 5:12pm and you take your clothes off upstairs in your bedroom and refreshen yourself by having a shower. The next thing you do is walk downstairs and turn on the T.V and start watching the semi-finals of the Bachelor, one of your favourite contestants is in the top three.
Almost everyone I have met in my life has certain goals they want to achieve, whether it be short-term or long-term goals. Everyone is different remember, someone might simply just really want to kiss a boy for the first ever in their life, whereby another person may want to become a barrister for a top law firm. These goals can depend on a lot factors, including how old you are, how ambitious you are and potentially what you value in your life. Ultimately, any goal needs some form of a plan and these plans all start with the habits you create.
“Successful people aren’t born that way, they become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do”
William Shakespeare
I was told once that it only takes 10 days to form a habit. When you think about how long 10 days is, that’s nothing! 10 days is a little over a week, a COUPLE more days than a week to become in the habit of doing ANYTHING automatically. If people began changing the way they do things, imagine how productive everyone could be. Just IMAGINE if you were in the HABIT of studying a language for 30 minutes each day, or learning that instrument you have always wanted to play.
I’m not ignoring the fact that habits have the tendency to fade and reappear. Multiple times I have tried to keep doing a particular thing everyday and something interrupted it. Multiple things can cause this, it could be that you’re busier at work, studying or you met someone recently and it’s human nature to focus on something that’s new and stimulating, not old and boring. The key is not making these habits as an extra part of your day, rather making them in your routine cycle of life.
You may not arrive home at 5:09pm and you may not have a cat called Tammy like the scenario above. However, everyone has their own unique “life patterns” and you have the ability to control what’s involved. You can choose to swap watching T.V for working on your goals that you have always wanted to achieve. It’s all in the INSIGNIFICANT HABITS that will get you where you want to fly. It may seem like it’s just one tiny thing you’re changing, but when you look back at how far you have become after adjusting those habits, you will see how much closer you get to ticking off those “bucket lists”.
Smash your goals
Love Mae xx
The perfectly imperfect 