Research shows we are more likely to make and sustain a behavioral shift if it is in the service of becoming a more ideal version of our self—as opposed to trying to fix something about our current self.
Mike Normant, Alice Chaffee, and Linda Newlin, Coach Your Self Up
Michael Bungay Stanier recommends asking the Strategic Question: "If you’re saying YES to this, what are you saying NO to?"
Think about that with regards to becoming your future self.
If you say YES to enough of the things you want in your future, you will naturally be saying NO to things that don't support that future.
A Buddhist might say, "The easiest way to get everything you want out of life is to not want anything."
I think most of us live in a world where somewhere north of “nothing” and south of “everything” is what we truly want out of this life.
Could it be this simple that all we have to do is to identify what we want AND identify what we don't want and crowd out the bad with the good?
That was not a rhetorical question.
Crowd in something good today.
Make it a habit of crowding in good things every day and see what happens.
