The 65 Micro Habits are insignificant, but the long-term benefits are amazing

Life is the sum of countless habits.

Every word and deed we say and do is invariably the result of habit.

Different habits determine different outcomes in life.

A study once found that the main reason why the rich and the poor are so different is because of their habits.

These habits are present in all aspects of life and are reflected in all kinds of things.

For example, the rich generally have the habit of keeping up with reading, waking up early, thinking hard, not following blindly, and being willing to invest in themselves.

The poor, on the other hand, are more inclined to look after the immediate, to be conservative, to be unwilling to break away from the status quo, to be unwilling to keep learning, etc.

These small habits may not seem like a big deal.

When you stick to them for a few years, or even for a long time, you will find that your destiny is already fundamentally different from that of others.

So, from now on, let's pay attention to our habits, learn good little habits, and stick to them for a long time to benefit from them for the rest of our lives.

According to Samurai Furukawa, a Japanese habit-formation teacher, "Change begins in the smallest details, and leaps and bounds come from little accumulations. Reset your habits to become a better version of yourself."

In his book 65 Micro Habits, he introduces 65 tiny habits that are highly effective and positive, allowing us to improve the quality of our lives from the details, self-manage with zero burden, relieve our common procrastination, clear out bad emotions, and change a little bit every day to achieve our ideal life.

01 Facing procrastination, you can try these micro habits

In his book, Samurai Furukawa mentions that procrastination is also a habit, and there are seven common forms of it: being too much trouble, fear of failure, feeling that there is still plenty of time, not wanting to be hated, feeling that it is too hard, not having self-confidence and not wanting to regret.

In general, people who procrastinate have a common trait of feeling stressed about what they have to do in front of them.

So instinctively, they reject it and start procrastinating.

If you too are a procrastinator, try these six ways to overcome the procrastination mentality.

Method one, shorten your time to a 15-minute unit.

Take 15 minutes to write a work report, whether you can finish it or not, at least you've started.

Take 15 minutes to clean one room instead of cleaning the whole house.

By setting this time, you will be more efficient because it won't take long and you won't find it hard to get through.

This is the crucial first step.

Method 2, make a list of events and complete one to check off.

There are several things to do each day, write them down one by one and cross one off when you complete one.

Acting on the list will prevent you from being six-footed and going east and west.

Method 3: Break down the work.

The more complex and time-consuming the task, the more people like to procrastinate.

Breaking down the work makes it easier to execute.

For example, if you have a project meeting, you break down the various aspects: before the meeting starts, you identify the participants, discuss the topic, how to exchange objections during the meeting, develop a plan, how to implement monitoring and follow-up after the meeting, etc.

Method four, focus on specific events.

With a clear one thing to do, you are more likely to take action.

For example, if you have to stop drinking and you have a hard time after not drinking, then you can consider having something else to drink instead.

The book also gives the PDCA method (Plan, Do, Check, Action) to help us focus on specific events and take positive action.

Method 5, stop the emotional internal conflict and just do it.

When faced with something we don't want to do, or something that is difficult to do, we can easily become negative and feel irritable.

This is the time not to do unnecessary internal conflict, not to resist, not to resist, normal mind to deal with.

Even if you are being asked to do something, just stay calm and do it.

Do what you have to do and don't let negative emotions drain our energy.

Do it on the spot.

"Do it now" is one of the most powerful phrases.

The book strongly recommends that if it's something that can be done in five minutes, do it now and do it immediately.

For example, if a colleague asks you to look up a document, you can find it by opening your archive and embedding the keyword in the document, so don't say to your colleague, "I'll find it for you later".

Do it now and don't procrastinate.

Otherwise, you'll forget about it in the back of your mind and put it off again and again.

These behaviours and ideas are effective in helping us to improve our procrastination mentality and become a competent doer.

02 To get rid of a negative mindset, you need these habits of mind

A large part of our bad mood comes from comparing.

Comparing income, comparing external appearance, comparing home, comparing children.

Comparing more than one another inevitably puts you in an uncomfortable situation.

To get rid of such emotions, we need to learn to think differently.

1cm Think beyond and compare yourself with your past self.

In the past, you could only finish two or three books a year, nowadays you can finish ten books, although this is nothing compared to the awesome reading masters, but you have surpassed your past self and set a new record for your reading.

When you compare yourself like this, you become positive and motivated.

Comparing ourselves to others, we always find ourselves inferior to others and are prone to frustration, so why not compare ourselves more often and see how we have grown and improved?

The most common mistake we make in life when comparing ourselves to others is to take our disadvantages and compare them to the advantages of others.

For example, people who are obese always like to compare themselves to people who are skinny and have their hearts broken afterwards.

Here's how we should compare ourselves.

Maximise your thinking and play to your existing strengths.

You may not have money or skills, but you are healthy.

You may be fat, but you're very fair-skinned.

You have few girlfriends, but they are all confidants.

Find your greatest strengths at the moment and use them to boost your sense of worth and confidence, rather than taking the worst and comparing it to the strengths of others.

The kind of thinking a person has is the kind of destiny he or she will have.

Creating a positive and positive mindset can enable us to break through our current perceptions and bring light to the dark side.

The book also talks about probabilistic thinking, where results depend on the speed of action.

Simply put, to achieve our goals, we need to try enough times.

For example, if you send out 30 cover letters, you might get an interview.

You call 50 unknown clients and you will always meet one or two who are willing to listen.

If you feel like you always fail, try a few more times.

Sometimes it's not ability that we lack, but action.

It is true that action requires a good approach and the right direction, but without action, everything is paper and nothing.

Everything is a matter of probability.

Even if there is only a 1% chance of success, we have to act 101 times and success will come.

03 Here's what you need to do to break free from the gravitational pull of old habits

Once a habit is formed, it is often difficult to change it.

Because the human brain has a mechanism that refuses to try new things in order to stay safe, and is determined to maintain the status quo.

This is also known as "attraction".

It's like when someone who is not used to exercising suddenly wants to go for a run.

If he runs twice, his brain will send him these messages: he's out of breath, his heart and lungs can't keep up, his legs hurt, his feet hurt, he can't run anymore, he'll die, he should just lie flat like before.

So, he will fish for three days and have trouble sticking to it.

Breaking the habit of attraction is not easy.

The book gives a couple of suggestions that are very doable.

Firstly, go with your emotions and do something that makes you happy; being happy is what makes you want to stick with it.

If running is hard for you, switch to a brisk walk, listen to a song with headphones and walk briskly for 20 minutes in a park in a beautiful environment, you will feel comfortable, it is easier than running 3km, and you are willing to do it.

Keep brisk walking for a while, your fitness will improve and you will come back to running without feeling tormented.

Second, group habit formation method, group to fight inertia.

If you find a few gym mates and make a date to work out together, you will be less likely to be lazy and feel lonely.

Third, the carrot reward method.

Treat yourself to a new habit in stages, and once each stage is complete, take control of the pace.

When you finish running three kilometres today, you can reward yourself with a long-desired outfit. When you keep running for a month, you can reward yourself with a good meal and a pair of running shoes.

Breaking old habits also requires a gradual approach; if you rush it, you will fail.

For example, if you have an irregular routine, start planning to go to bed early and get up early.

At first, you won't be able to get to bed at 10pm sharp at night, but you can manage to get to bed ten minutes earlier than the night before.

You also can't do it by getting up at five in the morning, again, you can do it by getting up five minutes earlier than the day before.

Even if there are times when you still go to bed late and get up late, as you have done in the past, there is no need to beat yourself up too much.

No one is perfect, give up perfectionism, allow yourself some lags and pauses until you develop new habits, and be flexible with your schedule.

Learn to use these tips for fine-tuning your habits and you'll get twice the results with half the effort.

04 90% of happiness in life is determined by good habits

Every day, we repeat hundreds of small habits. To change our lives, we must first change our habits.

In his book 65 Micro Habits, Samurai Furukawa introduces 65 ways to adjust your habits, starting from four aspects: behaviour, thinking, emotions and environment.

Micro-habits are a philosophy of life that places more value on action and practice, allowing quantitative change to produce qualitative change and allowing us to witness the compounding and dividends of habit.

Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female Prime Minister, once said a very classic quote.

Pay attention to your thoughts, because they will become words; pay attention to your words, because they will become actions; pay attention to your actions, because they will become habits; pay attention to your habits, because they will become character; pay attention to your character, because it will determine your destiny.

People are good because they have countless good habits that make them better and better.

The power of habit is enormous; it is rain that moistens things, and water that drops through stone.

If you want to live a wonderful and successful life, you have to take control of yourself and develop good habits.

Pay attention to each small habit, ordinary as you and I, will have the amazing cocoon into a butterfly.

Let's do it together.