What if – now hear me out – we made a list of all the things we want to do, but don’t often do.
Things like read or write or create or experiment or start.
And what if we made a list of all the things we do currently.
Things like watch TV or look in the fridge for food every hour or surf Imgur.
And what if we connected the two so that every time we went to watch TV, we actually chose to write more of our novel? Or when we look in the fridge for food, we read 15 pages of a book instead?
Habits don’t change with a flip of the switch. It’s far easier to integrate a new habit into our life by swapping it out with a habit that doesn’t help us as much as we’d like it to.
That way we’re not trying to create more space or more work for ourselves; we’re investing as much as we were before, but in a new direction.
Stay Positive & It Starts With Your Lists
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