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Little Choices Everywhere: How to Change Your Life one tiny Choice at a Time
The idea of creating big changes in our life can be quite daunting, but we often look at those changes the wrong way. We see them as a big entity we need to tackle but change can happen very differently.
Change your perspective completely
We all have goals and we imagine them as a destination, somewhere we will get if we follow a number of steps and put habits in place. All the work is ahead of us and it can feel overwhelming. It’s just too much.
What if you looked at your goal the other way around? Instead of looking at it as something ahead of you, you could look at it as though it was already achieved and do what a person who achieved that goal would do.
For instance, let’s say you want to write a novel. Your achieved goal is that you are an established writer. What do writers do? They write every day at the same time for the same length of time, in the same place. They might read some specific publications, make notes on conversations they overheard, etc. Throughout your day, make choices a writer would make and follow a schedule that they would…
