What’s Your One Thing?
Do you feel like you really need to…
Start eating better
Exercise or move your body more
Slow down
Connect more with family and friends
Start a meditation practice
Engage more politically or socially
Improve your outlook on life
Carve out time for yourself
Get back to that hobby you used to love
We all have areas of our life that we want to give more attention to, but where do you start? And how do you keep it going?
Answer:
Start with just one thing!
Step 1 - Identify an existing daily habit
Research shows that the most successful way to establish a new habit is to attach it to something you already do.
Examples:
Make coffee in the morning
Brush your teeth
Bring the mail in
Walk your dog
Get dressed
Turn off the lights in the house before bed
Step 2 - Pick just one thing…and start small!
I know you want to do a 30min workout, and write in your gratitude journal, and check in on your mom, and meditate every day, and on and on and on. But research also shows that establishing healthy habits that last starts with starting small.
So, my invitation to you is to pick one small thing that you can tie onto your existing habit and do for 40 days.
Examples:
Do push ups while your coffee brews
Commit to doing 1 full minute of meditation after you brush your teeth
Turn on your favorite song and dance to it when you get back from walking the dog
Write down 3 things you’re grateful for before you bring in the mail
Lay down on your back, with your legs up the wall for five minutes before you get dressed
Make one call to arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor before you eat lunch
Read for five minute before getting in the shower
Draw for 5 mins before turning off the lights in the living room at night
Send someone you love a voice memo before you open your emails
Step 3 - Ask yourself why
What is your intention for establishing this habit?
For example, maybe you want to build upper arm strength.
Of course we can all agree that it’s good to have upper arm strength, but why do you want it? Maybe it’s because you want to be able to pick up your grandkids. Or maybe it’s because you want to be able to lift a suitcase into the overhead compartment when we start traveling again to all of our dream destinations.
Drill down and really get to know your why.
Let’s do this thing!
We’re better together, as they say.
If you’d like to join the Just One Thing family and commit to 40 days of your new habit, register through the link below.
We’ll begin September xx and keep it going thru October xx