Tag: Habits

The secret life in our heads

Posted on by philipdodson

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We all have this secret life in our heads.

Uh oh, maybe it’s just me.

It is where we often imagine how we might like to be and pretend that is how we are inside our heads.

It’s a fantasy life.

Living a real one takes practice and that is all we need to do, one step at a time, practice building our real life based on the one that we live out in our head.

It is just learning the habit of taking one almost unnoticeable step, after another, in the direction of our dream life day-by-day.

What will hold us back is making the steps too big and too complicated.

Lightning learning

Posted on by philipdodson

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If you want to change something, then you need to find a way of accelerating your learning.

You can only accelerate your learning by doing more.

Doing more comes from building a habit.

It’s the building the habit that is the challenge initially. However, armed with a real deep down desire to change something, the commitment to do the daily habit forming routines, to do the practicing, to cut the new pathways in the brain, to build the momentum, comes easier and easier the longer down the path of change that you go.

Learning like anything else, gets better with practice, so as time passes the learning ‘muscle’ gets stronger and stronger, and you learn faster and faster.

You will reach a point of lightning learning compared to where you previously were and the more you continue, the more the compound effect takes place.

Like all things that are worth it in life, it takes time and patience with yourself. However, the quicker you are able to learn things, the faster you can accelerate your self-development and change becomes faster too.