Most of us don't manage to do everything we want to do in any given day.
We only have a certain amount of time and energy, so some things inevitably get left behind.
Can you manage practicing the piano, reading books, meditating, and exercising every single day, while working a day job?
I can and you could as well. Today, I would like to share a method I've found to be extremely helpful for managing all these competing goals.
It's called: Mini habits. A few years ago I wanted to implement meditation in my daily life and make it a regular habit.
So I told myself: "From now on, I'll do 20 minutes of meditation, every single day." Unfortunately that didn't work out as I had hoped.
Often I couldn't even bring myself to start meditating, let alone do 20 minutes of it.
I would make excuses like: "I have to be somewhere else in 20 minutes, I don't have time to meditate now." So I didn't meditate that day for even 1 minute.
Then I would often feel bad the next day and I would say to myself: "Ok, now I'll make up for it and do 40 minutes today." Yeah, that also didn't work out. But then I decided to switch it up a bit.
Instead of having such high expectations of myself, I decided to make my meditation practice as easy as possible.
