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Your Thoughts Make Your Belief

Whatever thought goes through our mind the whole day, and then day after day, months after months, they create some beliefs. Its so easy for me to blurt out ‘I don’t think I can do it’, ‘I am too old to do it’ – all these are some belief inside me that has subconsciously directing me to the kind of life I have now.

Since I am trying to work on my thoughts, interrupt my pattern, it is sometime surprising how simple core beliefs that I have are so powerful and making simple work so hard for me. The biggest challenge has been now to interrupt the patter. Instead saying/thinking I am overwhelmed with everything, I should really see and thing, is it that bad? I felt that in the morning and was down, then I decided to interrupt my pattern (thanks to my life coach!), I decided to calm down, and not let any of my thoughts or belief system interrupt, and ended up having a fruitful day. Whole house was a big mess, cleaned it! Lots of study, did some. Now going to gym for few days, went there. Watching too much TV, only watched for 25 min in a controlled manner.

None of this would have been possible if I were to let myself run by the habitual autopilot thoughts and beliefs that drive me!

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Focus Challenge

Joined a program to prepare for the interviews – Algorithm & Data Structure. Its been challenging to focus. While either solving a problem set or watching a video for solutions, I lose my patience and start checking emails, social media etc. It has been quite challenging recently. Its true that I am studying after a long break and the challenge is to focus for more than 20/30 min at a stretch! I am looking into ways to improve the focus. I have been using some tools to limit the websites I can access. But somehow ends up opening them and get back to the NO FOCUS mode :/ I am hoping with time and consistent effort this will improve soon!

awareness · habit

Committing To A Habit!

Paying for gyms for months and not every going has been a consistent habit for me 😛

To break the habit this time, I took a challenge to go to gym EVERY SINGLE DAY, even if its for 5 min. It has been hard and I couldn’t do it daily, but what I am proud of is in last 3 weeks I went there at least 4 days a week. Even one day I just went to take a bath 🙂 Oh well, in my defense I WENT!

The things is each time I have an excuse to not go, if one day it ends up controlling me I don’t let it decide my next day. I have been dancing between my excuses and my persistence. No one is fully winning yet, and I don’t plan to let the excuses win 😉