I definitely fell out of the habit of blogging. I think when Avi switched to only one nap a day it threw off the routine, and I haven't quite been able to fit it back into a regular routine.
So today, inspired by the book Tiny Habits. I thought I'd start tiny and write a short post about my goal this month.
This month I'm experimenting with drinking more water and hydrating. I'm hoping it will help me reduce the amount of headaches I get and overall just feel better. Teaching with a mask on makes it easy to go throughout most of the day without taking a lot of water breaks, so I wondered what might help me.
B.J. Fogg, the author of Tiny Habits, recommends picking a tiny habit that links to your overall goal. The habit should be easy enough that you can do it even on your busiest days. In the book he gives the example of flossing one tooth to get started with a flossing habit. Normally if you floss one tooth, you'll keep going, but it makes the habit super accessible while you're getting started and on days when it would be easy to drop a habit.
So for drinking more water, my tiny habits are this:
*Each night before bed, I fill up a water bottle. I refill it before going in to work.
*At work, the first thing I do when I get to my desk is empty my bag and pour a glass of water from the water bottle.
I don't have specific goal for how much I drink, but weirdly filling the glass and having it visible on my desk makes me much more likely to drink water. It feels more accessible to finish a small glass of water than the entire bottle, and more days than not I end up drinking the entire bottle (and even sometimes refilling it).
Do you have any tiny habits that help you? And if you have a blog, how do you build it into a regular routine?
I can't think of many tiny habits really, except maybe that I recently put all of my skin care products into a small, cute basket that I keep under my pedestal sink in the master bath. Having everything I need all in one place (plus I really like pulling out the cute basket!) seems to have helped me really establish a consistent nighttime skin care routine. (No more digging through cabinet or other places to pull out the products). For blogging, I usually just do it first thing in the morning! If I don't have a window of time to write in the morning, I probably just won't blog that day. Just never really fits in otherwise and I'm not generally in the "mood" to write in the middle of the day anyway. I enjoy making some tea, sitting at my desk, checking my calendar and then writing a post in a quiet house. :)
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