Tag: habit

Daily rituals, small is big.

Posted on by philipdodson

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I have talked about this before and I started to build up my daily success rituals, as my coach Debbie described them about 2 years ago.

Some describe them as their routines or as their practices.

What works for one person is not necessarily going to be right for another, that is not what is important, it does not matter what you do. It is just doing something small, that is not a burden, on a day to day basis. Also important, do not beat yourself up if you miss the odd day.

The thing is, just doing things regularly day in, day out for a number of years now has lead to some amazing changes, that I previously would have thought not possible to achieve.

Once you see how you can change so much by small daily rituals, you then start to become bolder and braver about what else you might change.

It becomes accelerated and you realise that you can do so much more in life by small insignificant daily steps than trying to achieve big steps.

Small is big.

Ah but…

Posted on by philipdodson

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Our default position is ‘ah but..’

We look by habit for what won’t work with a new idea. We say ‘yeah but, what if this happens…’ or ‘yeah, but I’ve tried that…’.

That does not mean we should not question things and look for challenges. But more often than not, until you try something you won’t know what the issues might be, other than the glaringly obvious things, which can easily be remedied before pressing the launch button.

The reason for this is our habit of building a cast iron defense for justifying our position of fear of starting or trying new things.

Best thing is to just go, try it. Then learn what doesn’t quite work, modify and carry on. Form new habits.

It is a mindset thing, change the default to that will work from what won’t work.