A short motivational monologue by Chad Silverstein about identifying and deliberately changing unconscious habits to build healthier disciplines. He advises writing out current automatic behaviors, selecting one habit to change or one new discipline to add, and choosing sustainable practices that can become lifelong disciplines to improve performance and wellbeing.
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I remember being challenged with writing out all my habits and my disciplines, changing the ones I didn't like, the ones holding me back, and then building in the new ones that hopefully can become disciplines that I could then build into my. My way of living, my life that is healthier and helps me with whatever it is I'm aiming at. And I used to play with this a lot. I used to build in lots of different types of habits and disciplines. But the one exercise you can do is to write out what habits you do that you're unconsciously unaware of right now, because you just never thought about it. And if you just think about the way you wake up every day and how you get out of bed, how you walk into the bathroom, how you brush your teeth, how you take a shower, like everything that you do, the habits that you have just ingrained into your way of living, and to purposely change those and to create new disciplines. It's life changing, literally. Not only can it change your life, it could change other people's lives. I always think it's funny whenever we walk into a meeting and people sit in the same seat. Why do we do that? Right? We're just creatures of habit. So the point where it's unconsciously happening, and I think that's my melody line, is where are you unconsciously habitual in your life? And which ones of those are healthy versus not so healthy? Getting out of bed and brushing your teeth with your right hand, it's not going to be something that you have to change. However, if you want to break the wiring, then you may want to change some of those habits just to get out of the same kind of habitual way of being in. Going through Groundhog's Day, where you're doing the same thing over and over every single day, but try new disciplines, and they don't become disciplines until you're able to really work it in and pick things that you want to do. You know, picking things that you. You think are going to be, you know, hard or not sustainable over time isn't going to help you. It's actually going to hurt you because you're going to feel bad about not being able to keep up with the discipline. So study yourself. Become the best student of yourself. Figure out what habits you are aware of and unaware of, and then pick one to change, pick one to add in and have some awareness of your disciplines and how they help you in your life and building better ones. Because we're always evolving and we're always about, you know, getting a little bit better. There's no ceiling to it unless you put it over yourself. And disciplines are where it's at. It's where high performers, they constantly build that skill because they're doing the same thing. And they get better and better and better and better and better. And they nuance it. The nuances are those disciplines. So figure out what those are for you and build more of them. And.
