Today, we ended 2021 less than a month ago with a lot of resolutions in our mind. One of the resolutions many people keep for the coming new year is "To become the better version of themselves"
Resolutions might work for some people but chances are most people who make new year’s resolutions don’t keep them. This can be because most resolutions are unattainable and they mostly focus on the result instead of the process.
So how to become the better version of ourselves? - Easy, we need to build small habits that will help you shape a good lifestyle for you. Habits are behaviors that are repeated consistently. They take time to establish, but once up and running they don’t require much effort to keep going.
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.
James Clear – Author of Atomic Habits
It is extremely hard to make something as a habit, unless we are forced do it. But , never underestimate your daily habits, because our habits define us and they shape our minds.
Here is a list of suggested habits you can implement in your life.
Practice these habits this year and witness the miracle.
(1) Make sure to drink water every. single. day!!
Now, I know I may sound like a broken record, everyone knows that they should be drinking more water but...
What does that actually look like?
Now take your body weight (in lb.) and divide it by 2 that is how many ounces of water you should be drinking everyday
Reasons to drink more water every day:
It really hydrates your body.
It helps our skin to glow and keeps it hydrated and also helps your hair.
It helps our body to really flush out all the toxins in our body.
(2)Practice listening to your circadian rhythm:
A circadian rhythm is just a another way of saying your body clock which means that our body sends us signals without us telling it to. Our body already knows what to do, it send us signals when its time to sleep, when its to eat, when its time to wake up to even when its time to go to the bathroom.
So those are little things that we really should be mindful of on daily basis.
You may have noticed that you tend to get hungry at the same time every day, and you tend to want to sleep and wake up around the same time every day because those are small habits and your circadian rhythm has really been accustomed to that. Now you can change that and you can make new habits, by trying to create some type of routine that you can stick to.
(3) Increase your daily movement:
Find ways to increase the amount of movement you do every single. Now that's not only exercising, that is parking farther away from a store and walking a little further. That is taking the stairs instead of the elevator, getting up out of our chair and moving around a little more than we normally do all of those little movements that actually helps our body better than just sitting.
But with that you should also add workout in your daily routine. You don't have to only go the gym to exercise, today due to the pandemic situations many home workout routines are easily available to us. Choose one such routine and try to do it 3-5 times a week.
(4) Sleep schedule:
Babies oftentimes are put on a sleep schedule by their parents, and they are told to sleep at eight or nine, and then they naturally wake up at a certain
Just like that we should also have a sleep schedule and a bedtime. Our body loves routines and it loves rhythms, and so to have a certain cutoff... is really important to practice self-discipline. If you tell yourself by 11:00 that I am done, then that's a great way for you to really put yourself in a routine. Now at 11:00 for example, you can have all of your apps turned off, because it's a great reminder from your body of "Hey, you're hitting your limit and it's time to turn everything off" and just prepare your mind to sleep.
(5) Strength-training for everyone:
You should incorporate some strength training into your lives. Women especially should be lifting weights as it's not just for men.
Just because you lift an eight pound dumbbell does not mean we're going to get gigantic muscles. Strength training is so important, especially for our bone density. As we get older, our bodies are not producing as much collagen and it's harder for our bodies to have stronger bones. We just want to make sure that we are helping our bodies as much as we can now so we don't have to pay for it later.
(6) Recognize your coping mechanism:
Many times in our lives and we are upset and we are angry. We do certain things to cope and deal with it. Whether that is yelling, whether that is running away, bearing her face into a pillow, or sleeping or
Those are all things that we try to do to cope with the feelings that we have. So recognize what do you normally do when you're feeling a certain type of way? As a child, those were things that we learned to survive and to feel safe. But as an adult, we can actually unlearn some of the negative coping mechanisms we might have and replace them with more positive ones. But it all first starts with self awareness, being aware of what we tend to do.
(7) Listen to your body:
We need to listen to our body more. When you start to feel a little full, it's okay to not finish all of your food. If you start to feel full, you can store some of the food and then eat it when you feel hungry or eat it the next day as another meal, it's a great way to save time and money if you had taken out food and also listening to our body and not over feeding. If you are tired, make sure that go to sleep.
(8) Comparing yourself to yourself:
Just because someone else wins doesn't mean you have to lose unless you're an
That's a little different. But in any case of our lives, if someone does better, we can celebrate them while also working on ourselves and making sure are we better today than we were yesterday?
You seeing someone else succeed is okay because they will still be considered a side character in your life story.
(9) Stop saying the word, "just":
I just wanted to ask. Just wondering. I just wanted to know. All those things make us sound a little more unsure or insecure of ourselves.
It's really good to practice taking that word out and saying what we simply want.
I want you to know I was wondering. Hi, I'm checking in about
All of those things help us feel a little more confident and sure of ourselves.
(10) Active relaxation:
We always say we need to relax more or that we need to practice self-care, but there is a difference between a passive way and an active way of relaxing.
The active relaxation is the best way to truly satisfy the need of relaxation. It can be done either by
Reading a book.
Cooking something for yourself
Taking a walk outside,
Doing yoga or doing meditation, or
Listening to relaxing music.
Rather than passively relaxing involving activities like watching TV and scrolling through social media.
(11) Fix your posture:
I hope everyone reading this right now got up a little bit.
We need to make sure that we take care of our back because that is going to be much more helpful when we get older. So it is important to maintain a good posture while sitting and standing.
(12) Make connections. Keep connections:
Try making new connections by meeting new people by just joining various activities or new clubs around you or by just approaching them directly via social media, it can also be simply the one person you see and smile everyday on your morning walk or someone you see everyday in a bus, metro or local while going to college or work.
Also, with that try maintaining the connections you already have by connecting with them, so just hit someone up that you haven't talked in a while and just say "Hey, how are you doing?"
(13) Declutter every. single. day.
Start decluttering at least one thing in my room every single day and either donate it or trash it or recycle it. So this is going to be a way just pick one thing you haven't used or worn for over 6 months or a year because it simply means that you don't need it and collect it in one bag or box every day and at the end of every month you can declutter it easily. Hopefully you're going to see your room is slightly more decluttered.
(14) Make your own deadlines:
Make deadlines for yourself, especially as an adult. Sometimes we have to be told what to do, but many times it's really easy for us to put things off to the side or procrastinate. So make a to do list and write out what date you want this to be done by, which means I need to submit, I need to finish this to mail this.
(15) Create discipline:
Meatless Mondays or Sugarless Sundays creating such disciplines is something our society needs a little more of.
So either it is for ethical reasons or health reasons being mindful one day a week can help build really good practices. For examples, looking at vegetables (salad) as a part of main dish even proportion wise rather than a side dish.
(16) Read daily:
Reading daily, even a small amount will add up to the wealth of knowledge that will enhance your life in many ways. It will expand your mind, teach you new things, concepts about various things and make you an interesting and a knowledgeable person
the key here is to pick a doable amount for every day, maybe its 10 pages a day or 5 mins a day. Your purpose is not to read a lot in a day but to be consistent.
Do a little a day and let that small action compound over time. be patient and you will notice the change.
(17) Try New language:
Learn a new language or improve in the language you already know. You may learn a new language just because you find it interesting or it may help you in your career, anyhow learning a new language never harms. Learning a new language is very interesting because it teaches you a lot thing about the culture, people, food and the place the language origins from. Some popular programs are Duolingo, Babble an Rosseta stone.
(18) Work smarter, not harder!
You also want to work smarter and not harder because by working smarter you then get to save time which also come in line with maximizing your time properly.
But how to you work smarter?
So, first prioritize what is most important that you need to get it done for today and then accordingly prioritize your other works throughout the week and complete it before their respective dues.
(19) Celebrate your wins:
we grow more confident in ourselves when we acknowledge our wins, what we have done and how far we have come. Celebrating our wins no matter how small they maybe, is a way of celebrating ourselves. You are cultivating self-love and learning to be your number one supporter.
The journey is much more enjoyable if you can learn to celebrate your small victories rather than thinking you have to struggle and sacrifice in pain the entire time. this is another way to be positive and building a healthy relationship with yourself. You build self confidence an self-esteem when you acknowledge yourself and what you can be proud of.
(20) Reflect and connect with yourself:
Early in the morning there are minimal distractions and it is the perfect time to ask yourself "So, how are you doing?". Take some time to think "How can I be better TODAY that I was yesterday?"
There are so many ways we can develop personally and really grow. Whenever you get time with yourself just reflect and ask yourself "How can I grow as a person?"
(21) Practice active listening:
Active listening is not listening with the anticipation of responding to someone but just being there in the moment with them and listening to then, making eye contact and not being on our phone or being distracted when someone is talking to us. All of these things is just being very polite and being an active listener to someone.
And lastly,
(22) Show gratitude towards your body:
Just remember that our bodies do so much for us. There are so many things that our bodies do that we don't even think about. Our bodies are so amazing and we should really treat with respect. We'll just incorporate the sense of gratitude towards out bodies and treat it the way it deserves.
Eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are tired, move your body if you have a stagnant lifestyle...
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