8 Micro Habits To Supercharge Your Life, Productivity, And Creativity …
8 micro habits to boost productivity and enhance creativity
The choices we make in our daily lives dictate our future in the long run. As John Maxwell sums it up nicely:
“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”
We can’t rely on willpower alone to get us through procrastination and help us achieve great things in life. Willpower is finite, and it fades as night falls. So, in order to achieve great things in life, we must establish systems and habits that support our journey toward meaningful goals.
I’ve formed a few small habits over the past few years that have greatly increased my productivity and activated my creative switch. I’ll be presenting these eight micro behaviors in this article.
1. Write Down Your Ideas
One issue with ideas is that, in my experience, relying on your memory to recall them will frequently fail you. We have millions of thoughts every day. The majority of these thoughts are meaningless and serve no purpose at all, but the remaining few are valuable; if they are acted out, they have the potential to completely change your life.
I’ve made it a habit to write down ideas as soon as they come to me. I keep a notebook on my desk at all times, and if I go for a walk or do anything else, I record my thoughts as a voice note or text message. Knowing that I can use it or implement it later eases up my concerns.
I’ve been posting consistently on several social media networks for more than three years, thanks to this straightforward habit. You can use the ideas you’ve written down however you see fit; do not rely on your memory to complete this task for you.
2. Take A Pause Before You Respond
Every time you find yourself in the middle of a heated debate with your family, friends, spouse, or coworkers, it is simple to get carried away by your emotions and behave in ways that you later regret. Before answering, pause or if possible remove yourself from that situation; do not succumb to your animal impulses, in the heat of the moment.
It’s not easy, but if you delay your reaction now or remove yourself from the circumstance, you’ll have time to consider an alternative viewpoint, prevent unnecessary conflicts, and become more conscious of how emotions can cause us to do things we didn’t plan to do in the first place.
3. Read Something Every Day
In the information age, where our brains are burned with cheap dopamine from short videos and other forms of content that are robbing us of our capacity to focus on a single activity, reading is both beneficial for the mind and a great method to consume content.
By reading good books you’re going to pick up new knowledge and viewpoints, which will alter the way you perceive the world and how you think about it. Additionally, those new thought patterns will assist you in making smart and practical decisions throughout your life.
Reading a book is among the most high-leverage activities on earth.
“For an investment more or less equivalent to the length of a single workday (and a few dollars), you can gain access to what the smartest people have already figured out. Reading to really understand, delivers residual results by any estimate.” — Greg McKeown
4. Write Something Every Day
How you journal is much less important than why you are doing it: To get something off your chest. Journals aren’t for the readers, it’s for the writers. There is no right or wrong way. The point is just to do it and to have some quiet time with our thoughts.
We may declutter our minds by writing down our emotional baggage rather than holding onto it in our heads. Writing aids you in:
- Gaining awareness of reality.
- Reducing stress and anxiety.
- Making better judgments.
- Assist us in knowing ourselves and our thought patterns.
5. Find Your Sweet Spot
Some of us work best in the morning while some of us find our sweet spot in the afternoon or even at night it is different for everyone. Recognize when you have the best concentration and use that time to complete tasks that you are more likely to procrastinate on(The Hard things).
Identify this time window and work relentlessly in it, It has three major benefits
1. It will assist us in doing the tasks that we are purposely avoiding.
2. Doing a lot of our crucial work at once reduces stress and frees your mental space and imagination to come up with more original ideas during downtime.
3. When we work in a deep state of concentration, the quality of our work improves dramatically.
6. Get Some Sunlight On Your Skin
There is a piece of scientific evidence for why going outside in the light makes you feel better; it’s not all in your brain. Serotonin is a hormone that elevates your mood and aids in maintaining calm and focus. Sunshine raises your body’s amount of serotonin.
Most of us working in the information age continuously stare at screens all day, but this comes with consequences. Screens are changing our bodies and possibly even our brains.
So to reduce the effects of the screen on our bodies and mind we need to expose ourselves to sunlight in order to keep ourselves sane.
7. Pick Your Top 3 Non-negotiables For The Day
We stretch ourselves too thin when we try to focus on too many things at once. In this information age, our attention and time are two of the most valuable currencies. We need to start treating them both like that.
Establishing a list of non-negotiables can help you give your daily life more structure. creating lasting habitual lifestyle changes requires a tailored approach specific to the individual. Everyone’s non-negotiables will be unique to them.
Choose three tasks or activities that will make your day worthwhile and eliminate, delegate, or postpone the rest. These shouldn’t be simple tasks, but rather challenging ones that will advance your career and personal development.
8. Break Your Goals Into Actionable Smaller Steps
When we try to make big radical changes in our lives, we want to take big bold steps to achieve it as quickly as we can. But most of the time this kind of approach doesn’t work in our favor.
Our big bold promises activate the fight or flight mode which in turn restricts rational and creative thinking.
Large Goal — Fear — Access to rational thinking restricted — Failure
Small Goal — Fear bypassed — Complete Access to Rational Thinking — Success
The only way to overcome your mind’s programming to resist change is by starting small and avoiding the fight-or-flight reaction. By creating new connections between your neurons, you will be able to rewire your brain to move quickly toward your objective.
By start taking small steps you’ll be able to skip the initial phase of procrastination as well.
That’s it from my side. Which habits helped you boost productivity and enhance creativity share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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