Imagine, that Eugene Pauly, a friend of yours previously had a virus in his brain which destroyed his hippocampus- the part of the brain connected with your memory. The doctors insisted on doing a surgery involving removal of that entire part. Eugene woke up in the morning, having no memory about this. He brushed his teeth, went to the living room and saw two doctors speaking something very important to his mother. When they asked if he recognized them, he replied, “No, I don’t.” Later, he forgot about it and went for a walk around the street, ate lunch and watched his regular favorite show on the TV. His mother entered the room, and he asked, “Who were those doctors earlier this morning?” To which, his tired mother replied, “They come to visit us every day, son. It’s just that you don’t remember.”
Hey there, this is LoadedCheese. Welcome to my first post. Now, Eugene Pauly was an amnesiac, that is a person with a partial or total loss of memory. Turns out that he still remembered to brush his teeth in the morning, take a stroll around the street, eat lunch and also watch his favorite show on the TV. So, how was this possible? Well, the answer lies in the power of habits. These mundane things were his habits- which stuck with him even though he lost his memory.
Back in eighth grade, I was always an attention deficit student, with zero time management, weak communication skills and quite a few bad habits, including endless surfing on the internet. The result? I failed in an exam I never thought I would. It was a massive setback for me. Then I had a conversation with my parents wherein they sat me down, asked what was wrong, and a few other usual things regarding my bad habits. Then I remembered Eugene’s story which I had read on the internet just a few days ago and had enlightenment- that my bad habits were which made me the way I was and only changing them would make a difference.
There are several habits which you too, like me can develop to make your time productive, from which I have listed the top ten to share with all of you today.
- Go to bed with positive thoughts in your mind. It results in the mood in which you wake up.
- Only one alarm on the phone, unless it’s too important.
- Wake up early.
- Drink water when you wake up.
- Prioritize. Plan your entire day with the time allotted to each task in the morning, and stick to it as much as you can.
- Turn off the notifications on your phone. I’m sure you’ll have your eureka moment once you realize how much time you can save by keeping technology away unless anything urgent.
- Speak up for yourself at the right moment.
- Cut off negative thoughts, judgments and people. Don’t let it affect you. You can choose whom you want to be speak with.
- Give time to what you are good at, and developing it as a talent.
And finally, the most important- believing in yourself, believing that you possess the potential to improve.
These habits won’t get to you in a day- a study says that it takes at least 3 weeks to form a habit. So chill.
As a personal experience, I love challenging and having fun with my schedules. What I do is that while preparing the schedule, I write down the tasks which I have to do in the day and the time when I have to do it. But while doing it, I try to complete it before the set time, so that I get the opportunity to strike it off thoroughly and get some bonus time, too. That is the extent of fun you can have with habits. My English teacher always instructs the class to end a creative piece with a quote, so here it goes.
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