1386: Change one little thing (Summer Break!)

When it comes to creating a life we love, or moving towards the person we want to be, it can be tempting to throw everything at the wall. This episode's a rallying cry for focusing on the little things one at a time, no matter how frustrating that can be!

 

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Good morning, Daily Peppers. And a very happy Tuesday to you. Now, around here, we tend to be big fans of personal developments and in the least cheesy and non BS way possible. We really do want to make the most out of our one wild and precious life. And I reckon on any given day, if you asked any one of us the things that we want to improve or we want to work on, we would have a seriously long list. My own list includes my morning routine, my evening routine, my health, working more in alignment with my energy levels and generally building a bit more of a flexible structure into my life. Now, on the one side, I think quite a lot of us really happily like, nerding out about it and reading about it and it all feels pretty exciting. However, it can also be seriously overwhelming, especially when we have a whole list of things we want to work on.

It can be tempting to work on, order them at once, balls to the wall, but it tends to be too much, too soon, completely unsustainable and unrealistic and we end up falling flat on our face. So if you can relate and there are a whole bunch of things you want to work on, I just wanted to share what I'm doing at the moment and invite you to join me doing it in your way. So for me, I know that generally how the next day goes depends a lot on the evening before, but I also know that if I start working on an evening routine that has way too many components to it, and I know by evening number three if that I'll be going back to my old ways. So instead I'm trying to figure out what it is exactly that would make the biggest difference. And for me, it would be tackling my Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, where I end up scrolling on my phone to pretty obscene hours in the morning. And while I love it at the time, next day Meg is not a fan. So instead of really diving into everything at once, I know that I will build a nourishing and sustainable bedtime routine over time. But for now, I'm working on finding the easiest way to remove my phone from the bedroom.

And I think that thing is going to be a bit like a domino and other things like my sleeping hours are naturally going to change as part of it. So I share all of this as a reminder that the changes that we want to make, they might seem simple on the surface, but they are actually quite hard and I really don't think it works when we tackle things all at once. There are some rare moments when that does really work, but I think for the majority of us, while we may not be a fan of patience or doing it slowly, I think this is one of the best ways of really achieving long lasting change. So, as you're listening, I invite you to draw up that list in your head of all the things you want to change and choose one tiny thing instead. Now, you can choose it based on what's going to make the biggest difference to you. You can choose it based on which one you think you have the highest success rate at. Or if you're not sure, I invite you to think of my favorite way of doing it, which is to think about what the easiest one would be to do. So here's to making the tiny changes.

Here's to knowing that you are making progress. And here's to knowing that a little bit of patience in the areas of self improvement can make a shitload of difference. I'll see you back here bright and early tomorrow. And remember, you can do it. You really can.