The tiny habit with a big impact
The habit?
Simply take 2 minutes at the end of every day to appreciate yourself, think back and celebrate the small and bigger positive things you have done today.
It could be that you listened to your friend when she really needed to vent, or took the first small step with something you have been procrastinating on for too long. Or that you got up from the comfy couch and went out for a run or to the gym. It could be that you were kind in a situation where it would have been so easy to be judgmental and to derive pleasure from that.
It could be things you may often take for granted in your everyday life. Like tidying the house, washing the clothes or just cooking dinner.
A few questions that can help you to start finding things to appreciate about yourself are:
- What is one small thing I can appreciate about what I have done today?
- What is one small thing I can appreciate about what I have thought today?
- How did I add value to one person’s life today?
- What thing that is positive but I usually take for granted did I do today?
By making this self-celebration into a very small habit at the end of your day – perhaps when you are in bed or resting after your dinner or taking a shower after
work – every day you can start to change how you think about yourself and the things you do.
This quick evening habit has helped me to raise my self-esteem and to keep it steady (even on tough days when things didn’t go as I had wished).
It has helped me to build new positive energy within, I have also found that after a while as this way of thinking becomes more and more of a habit it starts to seep into the rest of the day too and that can help you to react to and handle life’s ups and downs in a more constructive and optimistic way.
