KIO: Kick It Out
There’s something quite satisfying about proving yourself wrong. Forget the world, just you. It’s self-gratification and gives yourself room to breathe.
Kicking a bad habit is always a good feeling.
It may have taken a second or weeks but the satisfaction of getting it done is always one of the best feelings.
One of the first ones that I defeated was hitting snooze on the alarm. I learned that back when I worked at the golf centre. If I pressed snooze, I was going to be late.
The desire to want to do something is more powerful that you think.
Leaving things for chance that you have control over makes it impossible to progress with other aspects of your life.
There are habits and aspects of life that we can’t physically get rid of; stress, anxiety and uncertainty to name but a few.
I realised that ‘need’ and ‘want’ are not two separate words but the semantics align closely.
If you need to do something, there is some sort of reward or renumeration for doing so (normally), if you want to do something it is a combined effort of heart and mind willing you on.
The common denominator here is simple — the mind.
The mind is simply integral to fulfilling any part of daily life.
Whether you need or want something you first have to distinguish between the two. Doing that uses the mind.
For that reason, when you kick out a bad habit you feel good. You feel accomplished and you self-value because it’s a personal thing to you.
Kicking a habit, it’s an old-school way of looking at what you really are doing.
The essence of it is that you are trying to enable a state of mind that is content with a certain situation.
Waking up five minutes later isn’t doing anything for your rest levels but it means you’ve failed the first task of the day. Setting a bad image for the rest of the day’s events.
Morning and evening routines try to eliminate uncertainty and make you prepared for the rest of the day and week.
Whilst they are useful, people feel like they need to do it rather than wanting to do it.
Kicking a habit is easy for a few days — sustaining it takes a fire inside you to want to do it.
Needing something leads to burnout. I need money so I must work. I hate my job, it’s killing me and my relationships. Sound familiar?
The desire and the want to do something will help you to sustain that habit change.
These are things I need to think about as I adopt to this change.
Change is hard but if I want it enough, it should last longer than a week.