192-Habits Part 2 - Buddhism in daily life

Habits Part 2

You want to take care of your needs more, maybe tidy up more often, or clean out the closet, tidy up the garage, but due to "lazy" habits you haven't found the right tackle yet? We do most things out of habit, we need to get our system (slowly) used to the new components of our daily routine.

This is where it's helpful to reinforce the goals you're aiming for. Again, I'll give an example: you want to clean out the closet this weekend? Fine, just throw all the clothes in front of the closet, on the floor, during the week. That way you see the goal in front of you, you have an anchor set, whenever you see the disaster you know what's on the schedule for the weekend.

And when it would be time to clean up the closet again, you start throwing things on the floor again, you build the habit on the right time to clean up to a peak.

Our actions are habits that we can improve, that we should change when they show themselves to be "out of time". And the easiest way to do this is to create some sort of list of your habits, and then think about which ones are "good" and which ones should be "gone". And then, of course, ask your ego what new habits would be great. Do you want to learn a new language? Or improve your cooking, for example? How could you incorporate these goals into your life as habits?

Let me give you an example: You want to learn Spanish. To do that, it would be massively beneficial if you looked more often at the Spanish book you bought for that purpose. How could you get used to at least leafing through it every day? I would put the book on the toilet, put all other "reading material" away there, and make it a habit to go to the quiet little room without my cell phone. Now whenever I do my "business" I could follow my new habit, sometimes briefly, sometimes longer pick up the book, but make it a habit. After a while, you'll be able to speak Spanish, want to bet?

It is also important to make the new habits "palatable" to yourself, for example to reward yourself, or to link the habits with pleasant things. Let me give you another example: You look forward to your coffee every morning, you see this drink as a "highlight" that gives you a good start to the day? Then link the coffee with yoga, which you have already pushed into your consciousness by the mat you prepared in the evening. But today you have the coffee only afterwards, or you have to earn the second cup today, you establish a new habit.

The way is the goal!

Inculcate the habits that suit the person

- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero

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