Daily
Do-Littles are small activities that can help you accomplish a larger goal.
I created this term to help relieve some of the stress associated with achieving my personal and career goals.
These
activities should not exceed 5 minutes per day.
Breaking
these items down into small manageable pieces allows you to be productive
without seeming overwhelmed.
When
starting new habits it is very important that you set yourself up for
success.
After
all, in the initial stages we are more concerned with developing the habit than
we are with achieving the end result.
This
concept is critical to your success.
People
often fail to find their balance…they either procrastinate and do nothing at
all, or they set unrealistic goals and burn themselves out.
It
is important to start small and work your way up the ladder gradually and small
daily activities can help you accomplish this.
Consider
this simple example:
David
who is a 44 year old man who has not worked out in over 15 years suddenly
decides that he wants to build up his chest, arms, and upper body.
Now
after doing no physical activity for 15 years, he can run out join a gym and
set up a very expensive and aggressive weight workout.
This
is fine if he can stay motivated and stick to it for the rest of his life.
A
much simpler plan would be to link a basic exercise to something that he
already does every day and repeat the activity in small intervals.
David
could for example perform a basic exercise such as doing 20 push-ups each
morning before he takes his shower and at the end of one year he would have
gone from doing absolutely nothing to completing 7300 push-ups and he would not
have incurred any extra expense.
Chances
are that he would have also developed a habit that he could easily maintain
over the long haul. No need to pay for a
membership or go to the gym because this exercise could be done anywhere.
Forming
new habits should be done slowly and consistently so that the cumulative effect
can take place and increase your confidence.
Don’t
get me wrong, it’s certainly okay to do more if you are up to it but If you
can’t stick to one simple thing and do it twenty-five times, then it would
probably be very difficult for you to successfully accomplish more aggressive
goals.
Set
yourself up for success by starting out small and linking the habit to
something that you are already doing each day.
Activities
can include things like:
Do 20 push-ups per day Drink a bottle of water
on your way to work Read a short
motivational quote each day Save $20.00 a week Tell someone that you
love them Volunteer to take on a
new assignment at work Call a friend or family
member Try something that
you’ve never done before
Do
not concern yourself with doing what is popular or following the latest trends
or fads.
Find
something that works for you, something that you really enjoy doing, then set
some goals, set up a schedule and stick to it.
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