Defining a plan to getting healthier, fitter and happier is not a mission impossible if you don’t let it to happen by happenstance. As common sense suggests, if you keep doing what you have always done you will keep getting what you have always gotten. Or even better, as Einstein said, “insanity is expecting different results doing the very same things“! Mind resists strenuously to changes that it sees as threaths to its survival and therefore comes up with endless – rational and irrational – reasons why we should not act. As the Newton’s first law goes “an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a force”. You must be that force for yourself. Any action of discipline and willpower is a powerful message we convey to our subconsciuos about being determined to produce those changes, no matter how uncomfortable or challenging they may apper at first.
One of the easiest way to act your willpower and manifest those changes you are looking for is setting a strategy and a plan to get there. Without it, chances are that you will struggle with getting your head around the best way to achieve your goal. Your strategy is your how: a thought written down with a date becomes a plan. And what you track improves.
Are you a bit wary about the idea of setting strategies and plans? Does it look like far too complicated? Fear not, defining a strategy and creating a new structure is – without being conceited – far from being difficult. In order to get new results you should be putting in place something like the following steps:
1. Defining a plan or a strategy, especially a new one
Again, getting healthier will not happen overnight just because you wanted it and you randomly did something to get there. Rather, it is something you have to plan for. You don’t have to be perfect from the start; having a specific definition of your ultimate goal is enough to get started.
2.Writing down a plan and tracking how you perform against it helps you improve along the way!
This works wonders even at a general level; again, you don’t have to be perfect, just set yourself on the right track. Writing is important because, it is proven to give our subconscious mind a more powerful order than just thinking about it. Again, it is just a matter of being consciously focused on something, as where we concentrate our attention, there our energy flows
3.Starting with simple things
There are infinite possibilities: meditating 5 minutes every morning, doing exercise 10 minutes three times a week, reading 5 pages every day and so on, are just a few examples of what you can do and the structure you can put in place to support you in creating new habits
4.Booking an appointment with yourself in your daily agenda to stick to your plan (for example: a 15 minutes morning routine)
It does not have to last for long, however it is important that during this time you are committed to be fully present to yourself. To avoid any alibi or procrastination, for instance, I got used to set the morning alarm clock 30-40 minutes before the time, with the specific intention to enjoy and dedicate this space only to myself. Now it has become a standing appointment I can rely on, no matter what I have to do during the day. It is part of my daily routine. Pointless to say that, at the beginning, setting up this new habit required a little effort to adapt, however, in a very short while (some studies point out that the brain takes roughly 30 days to get used to make a practice of something new) it became quite easy and normal to me
5.Creating the right conditions for making your plan an integral part of your daily routine and stop thinking about it
Like, for instance, having a weekly meal plan in place telling you what to buy, looking for your meditation soundtracks or guided meditation and downloading them on your phone, or having your weekly workout plan ready, and plenty more than that!
Do you relate to this? I’ll see you in the next post where we will be talking about the importance of Simplicity in our daily choices.
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