What’s a habit?
Why do we do the things we do?
Why do we avoid new things and repeat the same old patterns that don’t provide the results we seek?
Those and more life journey questions I was asking myself at the end of 2018 when I wanted to break the patterns of mistakes that were stopping me from achieving a higher level of patience, to commit to new things long term.
I wanted the answers to take the control of my steering wheel and go where I actually wanted to go. Funny thing, it seems that once we are open to change, the right people and events find us somehow, or that’s what I like to think because I don’t believe in coincidences.
It was at the beginning of 2019 that my friend Armando recommended me the book Atomic Habits in a casual conversation at McDonald’s.
One of the core lessons I learned from that book was that setting goals are not enough. Creating better systems of habits to reach our goals is the way to go, because the high level of repetition in the key actions necessary to develop ourselves, will transform us into the individual capable of reaching any set goal.
The catch is that creating habits takes time, and it doesn’t show results in days, weeks, or even months. It’s a game of consistency and a battle with ourselves to showing up to practice every day for whatever skill we are striving for.
It’s possible to change ourselves for the better, it’s normal to think it’s impossible or too difficult. To become a better version of ourselves, we need to let go of the old version, and the old version fights back a lot, that’s why it’s difficult… but not impossible.
Fight to be better!
You can get Atomic Habits by James Clear here.
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