Hey Fam,
I took last week off to travel and rest. I hope you’re well.
I’m excited to share the first product will be dropping next Thursday. It’s a Notion based dashboard to help you stay connected to your vision and be proactive with your work, wellness habits and network.
It’s been super helpful for me; so I’m excited for you to be able to use it with the community for additional support and accountability.
This Week:
🎨Visual Of The Week: You’re Inherently Worthy
⚡️2 Keys To Making A New Behavior Stick
🧘🏽♀️Mindful Dose: The Miracle of Ordinary Life
🍅 Sauce: A song that reminds me of the miracles happening each moment
Thanks for your love and presence. Have a great weekend.
Kyle
Visual Of The Week
We’re all inherently worthy.
Our culture can make you feel like your worth is conditional based on doing more, achieving more or acquiring more.
As a result, you may never feel like you’re measuring up; there’s always more you need to do to be enough—you need a faster car, a bigger house, more followers on social media etc.
As we connect with our being and inherent worthiness, our actions emerge from our authentic core, instead of a sense of lack.
When we go from inside out, the doing, achieving and acquiring is based on internal desires to bring things into the world, rather than a need to feel like we are enough.
2 Keys To Making a New Behavior Stick
We all have ways we want to grow as people, but building a new habit is challenging.
I’ve wanted to form a writing habit for years, but felt overwhelmed by how long it’d take.
Below I shared 2 research backed strategies that helped me form the writing habit and exercise consistently. Both have been shown to work with a wide range of behaviors like exercising, recycling and quitting smoking.
1) Create a Plan That States Your Intentions
For example your plan might be: I’m going to stretch for 15 minutes on [DAY] at [TIME OF DAY] at/in [LOCATION]
With my writing habit, I said I only needed to write for 25 minutes, which was a game changer because it felt more manageable and helped me commit.
When considering the time of day, I’ve found it most helpful to link the behavior to an already existing habit rather than a specific hour of the day. For example, I found I was better at following through if I made a plan to exercise right after my morning writing habit, than if I said I’d exercise at noon.
2) Build One Habit At A Time
The caveat of setting intentions is that your chances of solidifying the new behavior only increases if you focus on one thing at a time.
As you may recall when setting a bunch of New Year’s Intentions, it’ll be harder to commit if you try to change or do multiple new habits at once.
Habits require repetition to become more automatic. The best way to make changes in life is not to try to overhaul everything at once. A more helpful approach is to focus on one habit until it becomes automatic and then work on other habits you want to start.
Sources:
Achieve Your Goals: Research Reveals a Simple Trick That Doubles Your Chances for Success
The Scientific Argument for Mastering One Thing at a Time
Mindful Dose
One of my favorite quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh, which reminds me that with attention, the moment and many other things can be witnessed as miracles.
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
What miracles can you bring your awareness to today?
Sauce🍅
Speaking of miracles. Here’s a banger from Chance The Rapper and The Social Experiment that’s all about the miracles in life.
Tweet Of The Week
Thanks for your precious time and attention.
-K