#habit building

[bigenderrevert]

I'm going to start making a habit of performing the acts of Wudu that way I can get more accustomed to it as it gradually becomes a more regular thing I do as part of my day to day life

And of course it is Ramadan which is a time for building good habits

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[we-are-the-memers-mr]

neurodivergent-friendly advice on forming habits for creatives (& anyone, really) - with photos

Habits marked with ⭐ are the most important ones, imo.

A good way to build habits that you don't read in books is to make the habit desirable. You can look up the other methods (Atomic Habits and other similar books are great).

But for this one, if you're anything like my neurodivergent mentally ill butt you need things to be desirable in some way to get you to do them.

So what does desirability mean?

It means that it makes you want to do it, with energy and enthusiasm! Or at least not hate the task and yourself and everyone and everything! Something desirable for a habit may include:

Organized

Goblin tools link - https://goblin.tools

The best way to ensure you can perform a habit is to make it EASY. The best way to make it easy is to be organized. Yes this is difficult but you'll get better over time and it'll pay off with dividends of you being very likely to Do The Thing (tm) if you combine this with a few other things on this list (plus the normal habit formation stuff, but honestly loving what you do will make you way more likely to do it than tying it to another habit!).

⭐Put it somewhere easy to access that you can get to EASILY every day, preferably something you already have a habit of going to, e.g. your desk or your lounge room.

⭐Organize your digital files! Here's an example:

^ art (main folder)

^^ (subfolder, 1 folder deep) anatomy

^^^ (subfolder, 2 folders deep) female anatomy

^^^^ (subfolder, 3 folders deep) female torso...

^^^ (subfolder, 2 folders deep) male anatomy

^^^^ (subfolder, 3 folders deep) male torso...

Etc, etc.

Tl;dr (non technical speak): make a folder within a folder for each aspect of your project/task.

📂Every once in a while (can be weekly, monthly, 6 monthly, etc.) sort out your digital files. If you're no longer using that folder, put it in either a "not currently in use" folder to use again later, or if you're done with it, put it in an archive, on either your computer or (preferably) on a hard drive for safe keeping.

📂I have a "quick access" folder with all the folders I'm currently using in it. This is so all I need to do is find the quick access folder and this way I don't have to sort through a sea of dozens of random folders to find the useful ones. This is also good because there are some windows folders you can't relocate and they sit there taking up space and making it visually more cluttered. Note: Be sure to back up your important folders once every week to 3 months.

📂If you want to go super advanced, there are desktop folder kits on Etsy (and perhaps some free ones? though be careful with downloading random things, you may get a virus). They make the folders look aesthetic.

📂Personally, I use either Obsidian or Notion, depending on what I'm doing (usually Obsidian). I recently installed Askify, which can connect to both. Cool thing about it is that you can add notes from any site on the net including YouTube, it takes screenshots for you, and grabs a timestamp as well as being able to summarise the past 15 seconds of the video for you (though it usually just types what the person said, but this can be helpful). It's $3.50 AUD a month, but Obsidian and Notion are free so you can just use those if you can't afford it.

📂⭐Keep the space you're working in as tidy as you can manage. Try to make a habit of every night taking all dishes and empty drinks into the kitchen before you go to sleep.

📂⭐If you have your own space, don't be afraid to rearrange it! I recently rearranged my entire apartment and using my own cleaning advice - if you haven't used it in the past 6 months, consider chucking it out (if it's not expensive), if it doesn't make you happy, earn you money, and isn't useful regularly in some way, chuck it out - and now I'm 100x more physically comfortable, especially because I have an air conditioner next to me now near where I both work and sleep. If you have trouble visualising, try using a website to do so or draw it on paper until it feels right. Pro tip: you don't have to throw away everything, you can also donate it to an op shop/charity/homeless shelter that accepts donations if it's still usable, or you can sell it if it's high-ish quality and worth something.

📂⭐*If you can't do it today, then put it on your to-do list for tomorrow. Keep transferring unfinished tasks to tomorrow until your list is free from tasks.

📂⭐Generally good advice, especially for neurodivergents (but everyone needs to know!): take a dang break every once in a while! If you find yourself getting frustrated with something, take a break, possibly until tomorrow.

... If you have to do it today, do something to break it up, e.g. a nap or a shower. After this, give it a little while to keep cooling off if you still feel bad, then go back to the task.

... If it's something you have more time to do, stop doing it when it stops being fun/enjoyable. If you don't get fun/enjoyment out of it to begin with, stop when it's no longer interesting. Stop BEFORE you get to the point where you're pushing yourself. That is how you make yourself hate whatever you're doing and get a massive block from doing the task. Trust me, I didn't write a story for over 3 years after writing every single day because I pushed myself to the point it was frustrating to do and forced myself to keep going. Not worth it, wish I hadn't.

Sight

⭐Especially good for creative and visual types, like people who like art, design, front-end web devs, game devs, animators, writers etc.⭐

🎨Aesthetically pleasing - e.g. plugins that can change the aesthetic of programs. A good example is the extremely extensive library of plugins and themes available for Obsidian, all free to install. You can also get aesthetic Notion templates, too, but they often cost money (though you can find free ones on the official Notion template website!).

🎨Some aesthetic program add-ons include: the extensive free plugin/theme library for Obsidian (you can even connect it to back up to GitHub for free, though it's very technical) and aesthetic Notion templates - here's a link to where you can find free ones (there are other categories, too, not just for productivity) - https://www.notion.so/templates/category/personal-productivity?paid=free -------- If you want a link to my Etsy store to buy a nice looking aesthetic Notion template for university students (or a different special one just for design students!) for cheap that has better features than the free ones, go here: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/PointyBirdDesigns?ref=seller-platform-mcnav§ion_id=47390214

🎨Nice colours that you like.

🎨Nice shapes - e.g. your office has a circular painting that you love the shape of (and it makes you happy to look at it).

🎨Nice visual texture - e.g. you're writing a book - consider doing it in a program that has unlimited pages and has a paper texture in the background with no ads or distractions (and can go full screen).

Smell

👃If you're not sensitive to perfumes, spraying a nice scent whenever you do the habit could make you feel happier. You may even start to associate the task with that nice smell.

👃Make sure the area you're working in smells nice. Bad smells can be major subconscious distractions.

Sound

🙉The object associated with your habit makes a satisfying sound, e.g. for writing you might want a certain type of keyboard, like a mechanical keyboard that makes a satisfying "thunk" with each key press and makes you feel like a professional writer. Some browsers like Opera GX (not sponsored) also allow you to add typing sounds directly to the browser, so if you can't afford a nice keyboard but still want a satisfying sound you might want to try that if you're doing a lot in your browser. Otherwise, iirc, there are also writing programs that might do something similar (you'll have to look for them yourself, I can't remember sorry).

🙉⭐You can use things for background noise while you're doing the task if you either have it down really low or you don't need to hear your recordings for it. E.g. for editing a video you can play very soft instrumental music (I don't recommend anything with words, it'll confuse you when they mix with your audio), or if you're doing something like sorting through paperwork you can put on whatever type of music you like or even a twitch or youtube vod/stream on while you're doing it. It sacrifices a tiny bit of optimal brainpower, but you'll likely be less bored and be able to do the task for longer so it'll likely even out, and if you're concerned, you can often do polishing touches at the end to make sure your work is good.

🙉Headphones can go a long way for focus in busy places. Noise cancelling ones can help a lot if you have the cash.

Tactile

🤗*Generally you want to be physically comfortable when performing your habit. If you can afford it/can save up and it's causing you discomfort, try to replace it. A good place to find quality furniture for cheap is your local tender centre. Sometimes op shops are good options, but they're usually more expensive. I found an amazing ergonomic chair for $100 that was worth about $500 - $600. Good things come along sometimes, just keep looking.

🤗If it's something that requires you to go outside and you can afford it, try investing in a few nice outfits to make yourself feel more confident for days when you're feeling less motivated.

🤗⭐If you're neurodivergent or sensitive to textures, make sure before you buy something that you can run your hand along it many times and not feel awful. Honestly, everyone should do this. We all have preferences.

🤗⭐Don't ignore things that make you feel uncomfortable! Why? Because in my experience it's a bit like in video games - these things stack up like debuffs. What I'm saying is, it may not be a big thing to have bright lights hurting your eyes, but if you have bright lights, an uncomfortable chair, and your environment isn't clean, this can be sensory hell, especially for neurodivergents. Write down the things that make you uncomfortable and fix as many as possible, one by one. Don't end up like your neglected sims who are very talented but are completely and utterly miserable because you don't fix the things that are bothering them and don't fulfil their basic needs!

🤗⭐If it bothers you, fix it as soon as you can. It's easy to let little annoyances pass, but just like when a sim does something they dislike, your tolerance for it will be grated until you feel absolutely awful and/or snap. This goes for things as little as your room being too cold (get a blanket or if you can afford it and have one, put the heater on!) or too hot. Do NOT screw around with things you can fix in under 2-30 minutes. If you can fix it in under 2 minutes, do it right now. If you can fix it in under 10 minutes, write it down and do it today. For the rest, add it to either a weekly, monthly, or some day to-do list. Scheduling it for a certain period of time makes it more likely to get done, though. If you're like me and can't do something when you force yourself to or are told you have to, just schedule it to be done within a certain week or month. No pressure.

Feeling

💜⭐A good rule of thumb is that you've achieved desirability when you feel excited to do the habit. If this excitement ever wears off, try mixing and matching other ways of building desirability or changing something about the habit, e.g. the prompt (see habit building books or summaries for more info). Keep it fresh! Whenever you get bored, change things around.

💜⭐Listen to your emotions. Emotions are the body's way of communicating things with you, whether it be about your environment or about your body or mental state. Sure, some are irrational, but every emotion has a story to tell. Try listening. Don't push your emotions down, learn to process them. If you don't know how, a therapist can help.

Bonus note:

Don't spend beyond your means! If you can't afford it, don't buy it! I am not telling you to go out and spend as much as you can on these things. Mid-range is usually the best bang for your buck, and can often be found for cheap in op shops and tender centres, as I said.

Good luck! If you have any bonus tips feel free to reblog this post or comment and add them!

#habits #self help #neurodivergent #self improvement #personal development #self care #creatives #creative work #writing #art #creativity #habit building #tips #self improvement tips

[csuitebitches]

Timing Your Habits

Setting habits is child’s play.

“I want to wake up earlier.”

“I want to work out more.”

“I want to study more.”

“I think I’d like to meditate from now on.”

But the issue arises not when you can’t follow them, but when you can’t time them.

What does that mean?

Let me share an example. I have five habits everyday that I have to do.

1. Exercise,

2. meditation,

3. reading the news and email

4. reading a book

5. playing brain games and watching an educational video.

They’re all relatively easy because I make it easy. I let myself read whatever I want to read, even if it’s fiction. I meditate for 5 minutes, which I find enough for now. I choose to watch a 6-minute YouTube educational video as opposed to a 30-minute one because I know I won’t be able to pay attention.

So what would prevent me from sticking to these? Timing them incorrectly.

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It’s easier to stick to habits when you have a schedule for them. Because then, over time, it becomes natural to you.

Meditating right after I wake up. I wake up, knowing that my first task of the day has to be accomplished.

Exercising in the morning. It helps me schedule the rest of my day - I know I have to get work done or do my chores or study after that.

Reading before bedtime. I get into my bed with my kindle or a book and not my phone, by absolute habit.

So, after you create your habits, set a time for them. Make it easy and natural for you to follow.

For instance, I can’t read right after I wake up - I’m too groggy. But I know I can meditate, and then I can skip over to watching the news while I eat my breakfast.

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Now when you set habits, start by segregating them into “morning”, “afternoon” and “evening.”

Then organise your morning habits from first to last - and do the same for the rest.

Don’t create more than 5 habits at once. It’s better to accomplish 5 habits everyday for a month than 10 habits for 2 days.

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[reuasble-cottonpad]

𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇, 𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝓂𝑒 ‧̍̊˙· 𓆝.° ｡˚𓆛˚｡ °.𓆞 ·˙‧̍̊

starting new year i embarked on a 90 day long journey to improve myself.

it's spiritual in nature but i see how this could easily become a way of life for someone (me), who wasn't used to structure growing up and is more familiar with chaos, which i got used to, but living like that can be extremely tiring.

"how we spend our day is how we spend our life." - annie dillard

after first week what inspired me the most, was how easy it was to wake up. the so called "heroic minute" demands you wake up within the minute your alarm goes off. as someone who used to be a big snoozer and set up multple alarms in the morning "just in case", this made a big difference. to have one alarm and have a guarantee you will wake up, you also need a proper amount of sleep. 7 sounds like a good number, which i find rests me well enough.

after i wake up i find meditating 20 - 30 minutes refreshes me and gives me a sense of calm throughout the day. it grounds me and gives me a sense of presence. for that reason i decided to not use my phone during the lectures and give my full attention to my professor, which is basic respect as everyone likes to be heard. i find the material mostly interesting and the fact that our class never surpasses more than 25 people, makes it easier for me.

this first week after new year was quite successful, i hope i can keep it up for another so many days, but even hold these new habits after the time quota will be surpassed.

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[izzyspussy]

PLAN WITH ME November 2022 Bullet Journal Set Up | Bats Theme + Weekly Habit Building Tracker

I can't believe it's November already! Did everyone have a good Halloween/Samhain?

In this set up I've got a calendar page with my monthly checklist, featuring my Patreon rewards. Then a two-month future log, sleep tracker, and habits and mood tracker. Then the project management spread I started using last month. And finally the dailies, and some bat doodles!

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[stupidhike]

I don't know if this is anything. But it feels like something.

Left is the before Duolingo released a phone widget to help give you an immediate visual reminder of whether or not you had done it that day. Pictured right is after. You can see the exact moment I installed that widget.

I don't know if they wanna just give me my ADHD diagnosis now or....

#photos #Duolingo #habit building #adhd

[journey-of-success]

10-Week Summer Habit Challenge Update #7

This Week: Hygiene Routine

Honestly, this week did not go as well as I'd hoped. Lots of socialization Thursday and Friday kept me busy for those two days, and I was completely wiped Saturday. Like, "do a couple hours of work at my desk, start dozing at 4pm, then pass out and sleep until 11am the next morning" kind of wiped.

So yeah, that was going great.

Here's hoping I can rebound and come back from this easily enough.

Next Week: Meal Planning

I kind of dabbled in this already, having a handful of specific things in mind when I got groceries on Thursday.

Unfortunately, with two weeks between grocery trips, I picked the wrong week to really try and do anything with this. Oh well, I can still plot things out that I want to make, and try to work with the same kinds of ingredients. It'll just be better off next week when I'm actually putting a grocery list together.

#10 weeks of good habits #good habits #habit building #habit challenge #productivity #self improvement #summer challenge

[animakis]

How to Overcome Procrastination and Take Control of Your Life in 5 sec!

Do you often find yourself procrastinating on tasks you know you need to do? Do you struggle to take action on your goals? This simple yet powerful rule has helped millions of people worldwide, today we will explore the benefits of the 5 Second Rule and how you can apply it to your own life. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. … Lets Go! The 5 Second Rule is a simple, yet powerful tool that can be used to overcome…

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[habitica]

NEW PORCELAIN MAGIC HATCHING POTIONS AND THE RETURN OF MOONGLOW HATCHING POTIONS There's a new pet breed in town! Check out the brand-new Porcelain Potions and the return of Moonglow Potions to brighten your latest avatar look. Buy them from the Market and use them to hatch any standard pet egg. (Magic Hatching Potions do not work on Quest Pet eggs.) Magic Hatching Potion Pets aren't picky, so they'll happily eat any kind of food that you feed them!  These potions are available until Aug 31. After they're gone, it will be at least a year before the Porcelain or Moonglow Hatching Potions are available again, so be sure to get them now!

#habitica #pixel art #productivity #motivation #delft #porcelain #to-do list #habit building

[shann-on]

Why You Need To Start Small And Slow With New Habits

Why You Need To Start Small And Slow With New Habits

Today, I thought, today I will get my routine back into shape! Yesterday, I drew up a daily schedule of all of the tasks that I would like to get done; practice a good morning routine, write and plan content for my blog, go for a walk (that, according to this new schedule that I have, I need to start doing in the next 7 minutes), read, meditate, etc. etc. I had planned out my day from the moment…

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[orphancookie69]

Habit Building: Daily Journaling

Being an adult, that is functioning and somewhat successful, feels like a conglomerate of “good habits”. Like putting your clothes away the day you wash them, washing them once a week, and only buying clothes you will wear and wearing them in the world in a way you and the world you are in is happy. But I will tell you, I have to work at the “good habit” of putting my clothes away the day I wash them. But then I do have some habits that are good, that offset the bad. Journaling is one of them. 

Journalling is becoming more of a thing in a world that is conscious of “mental health”, but I was journaling way before this. I would find the cutest journals, to be fair I still do, like a lockable NYSNC journal so that my sibling could not read my inner most thoughts that I dare let leave my rabbit hole infested head. But then I was never really consistent. And any of those that made it long enough to be re-read, I found I only journalled on a day that was really good or really bad and normal days weren’t worth noting. 

Fast forward to current day, I log most everything on my phone from physical stats to food to journaling. I got my first iPhone in my high school years, and because the information carries from phone to phone-I started journaling on the notes app. I love the notes app, it has made some great changes recently. I was having one note per year. I randomly tried to look through the notes and thought-I should have this all in one place and try to be more diligent in journaling daily. So I researched apps and found: Day One. I put every “entry” in the “notepad” in the app, which took days and brought back some sad moments. 

From this point I journalled daily with text, and even a photo where I remembered to do so, every day for 365 days. Let’s take a step back and think about this. There are only so many days in a year, years that you are alive. So much can happen in a year, is one even the same person they were a year ago? Habits are hard to make, what does one talk about every day for a year? Everything. Doing this, with intention, made me realize so much happens even in a day-and life has as much meaning as you give it. 

The other thing is-its so good to get out of your own head. There is nothing wrong with your thoughts, in fact I think you should revisit them and see if you still feel that way or if that part of you grew. But to know who you are, what you stand for, and to let your emotions show you what you needed to see- is so important. We are spiritual beings having a human experience, we feel things-and that means something. Mental health is so important, if you are taking the time to exercise (because you are taking care of the body) or meditating (because you are taking care of the spiritual) then make time for your mental/emotional health and journal. You are worth the time you are putting aside. Learn, safely, from retrospection! 

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[everydaydeeds]

Day 3000!!! - Knowing this milestone was coming, I tried to think of some grand deed I could do in commemoration. But honestly I am terrible at coming up with big ideas and the whole point of this project is doing small things consistently. So I thought I would share the top five major changes in my life that these little deeds have added up to over the last 3000 days : 1) Embracing a climate-friendly diet (mostly vegetarian, exploring non-dairy) 2) Bringing my own supplies like water bottles, silverware, tupperware, bags, and jars to reduce or eliminate reliance on some single-use plastic items 3) Getting into baking/cooking lots more things from scratch (especially bread products) 4) Making welcome cards, birthday cards, and valentines for all of my coworkers 5) Communicating with my elected officials and actively participating in local community projects/meetings

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[fitgothgirl]

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[izzyspussy]

Minimalist December 2022 Bullet Journal Set Up

I had to minimize all of my spreads as much as possible because I only had five pages left in this journal kasfkls. Hopefully it makes it the whole month the way I set it up, but I guess we'll see...

Anyway, it's the last bujo set up of the year! Did y'all have any goals this year, and did you accomplish them?

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[ispiritualist]

Why is meditation so hard and how to make it a habit

“I feel sleepy every time I meditate.“ “I just have so many thoughts, I can’t sit still.“ “My brain just won’t shut down.“ “Sitting to meditate makes me restless not calm.“ If these are your thoughts on meditation then let me explain the why of it and then we can move on to the how of meditation. Why trying to meditate makes you restless If you have been living your life the hard way, i.e.,…

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[anarchyroll]

Perceived Momentum Solidifies #Habits

I’ve been a premium subscriber to Lumosity (brain games app) on and off for a decade now. I find it helpful. The older I get the more I realize my brain can use all the help it can get. Real, imagined, or placebo I don’t care. Don’t tell me about the labor pains just show me the baby. I would use it reasonably consistently here and there then drop off. I would subscribe to the premium version…

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