This Top Tip Can Make Lifestyle Changes Easy
Do you press pause on improving your confidence, because change is so difficult?
Do you want to make your lifestyle changes easy?
Would it surprise you to know that there is an easy way?
Then let’s get into it.
So, how do we make lifestyle changes easy?
The easiest way to make permanent, huge changes to your lifestyle, is to use small daily habits
Because, the problem with change, is that for many people, they make the necessary steps, far too big to handle.
The solution then, is to make regular, small yet meaningful changes to your everyday life.
As Alice Boyles Ph.D says in her post on Psychology Today, try to improve the various areas of your life by just 1%. Small 1% changes are an Awesome strategy for making improvements.
This strategy has been around for many years. Even Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790), saw the awesomeness of small everyday improvements…
“Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. “
In his book ‘Atomic Habits’, James Clear explains…
“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them. They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous.”
(Excerpt From: James Clear. “Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results”)
So, take a few minutes and think about an area of your life where you’d like to make lifestyle changes easy (yeah, I know, you want to make every change easy 😎… and now you can).
Maybe that area is having more confidence in how you present yourself to others?
Then, to make a start, follow this simple plan…
- Think of one thing you could do, to make it 1% better than it is at the moment. Maybe, practice standing with your shoulders back. Or Learn to hold your head up straight, rather than slouching. Or, remember to breathe slowly and regularly, etc.
- Choose a habit you currently have, to use as a trigger to remind you to practice. Maybe, every time you start to feel stress, or, immediately after brushing your teeth in the morning, or straight after your first cup of coffee. Something that will trigger the new, or improved action.
- Decide to practice the small thing every day. Make a commitment to never put this new action off. If you chose your trigger correctly, you’ll always be able to do it.
- Once that one thing has become a habit for you, rinse and repeat. Once you’ve got the hang of it, there’s no reason why you couldn’t be 1% better in every aspect of your life.
For example, if you wanted to improve your fitness, you could start with committing to one press-up each day.
It seems silly to commit to something so simple and you’ll probably end up doing 5 press-ups. But, on days where you’re not feeling top notch, you can still do one press-up, and achieve your goal! It’s win-win.
Commit to small changes and achieve more, rather than committing to big changes and falling short. That’s the way to make lifestyle changes easy, instead of difficult, or impossible.
Not having the time should never be an issue.
Every small win is a bonus for your confidence, but every failure, is obviously a setback.
Confidence comes from success, so plan to be successful as often as possible, even if it’s a small success.
So, now you have the knowledge to help you make lifestyle changes easy, by using small, almost inconsequential improvements every day.
If you make these small things happen daily, you’ll have the momentum to carry on with it.
Until next time, why not share this idea with someone else who needs it 😀?
