Those little things that make you better

In a blink of an eye, only a hundred days left in 2022.

The determination to set the goal at the beginning of the year seems to have not disappeared, but what is the goal? Many people have forgotten.

Read at least one book a week? Still exercise every day?

Stephen Geus, the "Micro -habit", found that people's goals were difficult to achieve because the goal was too large and brought great pressure to themselves.

Once the change starts, we feel that only the goal is successful. If we can't do it in the end, we would rather not start.

The best way to change is to start with micro habits.

This very small active behavior, you need to force yourself to complete it every day.

Micro habits are small and will not cause you any burden. It has a strong "deception", so it cannot fail.

The real method of success is continuous action, continuity will create habits, bring results, and inspire you to make persistent efforts.

Stephen Geus ｜ Jiangxi People's Publishing Group

Human nature is to do the easiest and most fun things. Even if these things sometimes make our lives less healthy, such as eating sweets and lying on the sofa for a long time.

These happy things make us unable to be what we want to be, and often make us regret it.

Stephen Geus once made up countless times to exercise at least half an hour a day, but did not do it once.

He felt that he was lazy and had no motivation. He was not satisfied whether he was physical condition or lifestyle.

If you exercise for 30 minutes, then if you only do one push -up every day?

This idea looks ridiculous, but he decided to try it.

This push -ups changed his life.

Now that he still keeps push -up, it seems a bit stupid to make one, so he made a few more.

"At this moment, I found the joy of exercise."

Sometimes, this push -ups will ignite his interest at once, and finally finish a whole set of sports; sometimes only 5 or 10; in only a few cases, he only does one to complete the task.

It is important that every day's exercise is not difficult to him.

Half a year later, he no longer resisted the exercise and began to go to the gym.

A tiny move can bring huge changes.

Stephen Gess set his goal since then, read two pages of books a day, and wrote 50 words. After that, his reading and writing volume increased, and he wrote a "micro -habit" with this micro -habit strategy.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" said: "The winning soldiers first won and then for the battle, and the soldiers were fighting first and then seeking victory."

Change does not mean that you have to fight with yourself for 30 days, but you have to have strategies before starting the battle. This is the same to change your life. Before changing your habits and lifestyle, you must change your brain.

The body is a reflection of the state of the brain. Our behavior is more than half of our behavior.

The difficulty of changing the habit is that we always want to fight back the subconscious. The correct strategy is to conform to the nature of the brain to change the subconsciousness.

What is the nature of the brain? The brain changes very slowly, and it is necessary to repeat multiple times to form a new habit.

For example, your day is getting up in the morning, drinking coffee, listening to the news, and then washing and brushing, going out to work.

Suddenly one day, the mobile phone was broken, and if you couldn't hear the news, you would feel that this morning was not complete. The next day, you will still open the news instead of suddenly adapting to the morning without news.

"The brain is a chronic child." On the other hand, the more suddenly the change is, the more obvious the change, the more resistant to the brain.

For example, if you are used to eating a lot of staple foods every day, if you suddenly cancel, the brain will resist. If the brain does not even notice this change every day, the new habit will gradually develop.

In addition, "the brain is also very stupid."

According to the "three -layer brain theory of human brain" proposed by American neurologist McCle, the brain contains three parts: primitive brain, perceptual brain, and rational brain.

The primitive brain is the oldest and smallest part of the brain. The role is to maintain the basic survival function of the human body. This part does not have the ability to think or learn, and only makes instinctual reactions based on external stimuli.

In other words, when you smoke, the primitive brain will not consider the possibility of lung cancer; before you exercise, it will not fantasize the benefits of beautiful abdominal muscles.

Sensory brain is an emotional center. It is a system that humans develop in order to adapt to cooperation and group life. It is in charge of emotional, emotional memory and attention.

The rational brain is the last part of the development of the development of the language. The functions of the language, writing, planning reasoning, learning adaptation, abstract thinking, etc., so that humans have higher spiritual wisdom, intelligent mental response, rich creativity, and so on.

The rational brain will let you do those "uncomfortable but correct things."

The most effective way to change the brain is to make those brains that do not suddenly feel uncomfortable and uncomfortable.

A series of micro habits are given in the book, such as eating a fruit and eating more fresh vegetables in the diet.

In exercise, do a push -ups, make a pull -up, do a sit -ups, run in place for 30 seconds, do 30 seconds of intermittent exercise, click a fitness video for 30 seconds, stand up every two hours to work and work for a while to work. Time, or stand up for a few seconds every hour to wake up the metabolic system ...

Select 1-4 micro habits that are suitable for your personality and lifestyle, and do it every day. Micro habit is easy to do, and it can be completed when the state is not good, so continuously completing the micro -habit is more easily realized than the intermittent self -abuse of "30 minutes per day".

Some institutions have done statistics. Those who set goals have nearly half of the people who have given up one month later and can insist on completing the goal of less than eight percent.

Without persistence, there was no change.

The habit of the past determines myself today; today's habit is you tomorrow.

It is not a big deal that changes life, but a small habit.

Rather than paralyze yourself in those distant goals and empty slogans, it is better to start from the small efforts of the moment and make changes.

From today, a micro -habit will be developed, and life will change from tomorrow.

If you have skepticism or resistance in the process of insisting on micro habits, think about the following suggestions:

Imagine how easy it is to do these small things, so that you have a sense of picture; don't compare your goals from other tasks; you are grateful for the progress of any degree; don't care about the surrounding environment, real progress rarely depends on relying on the environment. Time and place; never underestimate a small and correct decision of what short -term and long -term impacts can you have on your life.

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