We have all heard in our lives speak of the habits and the importance that these can have in our life. However, most of us have long established habits and we find it too costly to change them. Changing a habit or instituting a new one requires effort and this is the reason why many people have habits that they know are not healthy and that in the medium / long term they are going to bring them nothing but problems.
Smoking, having an inadequate diet, spending too many hours without moving, etc. We know that they are actions that do not benefit us, however. Immediate gratification they bring us competes with the long-term benefits we can get by changing some of our habits.
In this article I want to talk about 7 habits that if you manage to implement in your life will become a better version of yourself and will increase your Levels of happiness enormously. Being happy is easy, it is we who make it complicated.
However before I talk about these habits I want to give you some guidelines for you to succeed in establishing the habit without leaving it on the way. Establish a Habit is to perform an action in a systematic way until you can do it practically automatically without hardly investing effort. The The more possible it is that you even end up enjoying that habit that a priori gives you so much laziness to establish.
Guidelines for establishing a habit
- Inspire habits one at a time . The willpower is limited and if you try to establish 3 habits at the same time, it is most likely that after two days you have left all three.
- Why do you want to establish a habit? Do your own reasons convince you? It is not the same to learn English because they say that it is very important today that because in a year you intend Travel to the country of your dreams, right? If you want to establish a successful habit, it is important that you convince yourself of your own reasons.
- Make an action plan. If you want to start doing sports, draw up a plan of how you are going to do it. For example: the first week you can go running for 20 minutes, the
Second 20 minutes and then do a series of exercises, and the third 30 minutes with your exercise series. This way in a month you will Established the habit of doing sport. - Never leave the habit two days in a row . One day anyone can fail, we are human, but if you leave it two days you are moving away from success. Do everything in your power so that Never spend two days in a row without carrying out the new habit, especially in this first phase.
- Reinforce your progress . Give yourself credit. Every time you take a new step towards the establishment of the habit, you give yourself. Make a small gift, give a Whim or just say to yourself how well you are doing it.
Well, all these guidelines will help you establish a habit without being in the attempt. But what are the habits that will help you become
A better version of yourself?
Do sport
You've heard them a thousand times but doing sports has enormous power to Improve your quality of life . In fact, doing sports makes us segregate Endorphins, hormones of the sensations of well-being and generate multiple benefits at both physical and psychological level.
Read
Reading is cultivating the mind and cultivating the mind is cultivating your life. If you get to read a book every week in less than a year you will be a much more Enriched by yourself. Libraries are free and on the internet you will find numerous books also free. What are you waiting for?
Take time to maintain your social relationships
We already have studies that show that having social relationships is one of the parameters that more correlation has with the vital satisfaction, in addition There are also studies that establish some relationship between quality of personal relationships and longer duration of life.
Have hobbies
Having a hobby means periodically devoting time to a skill you enjoy. This is an excellent preventive against any kind of psychological problem. Having an activity with which to disconnect and have moments of enjoyment is a good strategy to increase your levels of happiness.
Learn some technique of meditation or relaxation
Learning how to fight anxiety is key in a society so accelerated and so demanding As we live. There are multiple techniques of relaxation, mindfulness, yoga, meditation, etc... that with practicing them in a systematic way 10 minutes to
Day, you will achieve great improvements in your level of well-being.
Travels
I understand that this is based on the tastes of each person and that there will be people who do not like anything to travel. But if you like to do it do it more often! Traveling is the best way I know to accelerate your personal development, relax your mind and learn a multitude of skills such as social skills , Communication skills, introspection skills, etc... You will also meet wonderful people and places that will make you Vision of life will never be the same again.
Be grateful
Being grateful is a habit that can be developed just like any other. Be thankful Means putting your attention on the good things you have In your life, in what you have not in what you lack. I recommend that every night before bed you spend about ten minutes writing in a Note those things that have happened throughout the day for which you should be grateful. It does not have to be great things, if not details that Have made happy, like the morning breeze brushing your face, the son's smile, the joke that the doorman told you, etc... After all are the small Everyday things that make us happy.
I recommend beginning to establish these habits in your life from the very beginning (One by one) and I assure you that you will become an improved version of you same. You probably think that you do not have the time or that you invent yourself a thousand excuses not to take the first step and to take action, but... What if you change Your unhealthy habits or those things that do not contribute anything to establish these habits one by one?