Tiny Habits

Making the transition from lofty resolutions to tiny habits. 

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Housekeeping Tiny Habit #1

Goal: Clean and organize the apartment

*Old habit: Let things pile up until it gets too cluttered to move then get frustrated and clean in anger.

*New habit: Clean as I go, keep up with weekly chores, minimize possessions.

*Tiny habit 1: Clean and/or organize for at least 5 minutes per day.

For the next week, I really want to work on and master this tiny habit. Five minutes isn’t going to kill me. I probably already tidy up five minutes a day without realizing it, but I want to make it an intentional five minutes. I’ll check in on Saturday (March 5). If I’ve kept up with this tiny habit, I’ll make a new one to add on top of it.

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2016 Goals and Tiny Habits

I made a goals list for this year in January. Now it’s February, and, let’s face it, I’m nowhere near where I thought I’d be. Part of that is from unrealistic expectations and the other part is from just not knowing where to start. Here are five of my yearly goals that I feel I need to change something in my life in order to realize them.

Goal 1: Clean and organize the apartment (and keep it organized)

Goal 2: Practice mindful parenting

Goal 3: Write 450,000 words (fiction)

Goal 4: Learn French (improve, anyway)

Goal 5: Create (and stick to) a workout routine

I’m going to focus on Goal 1 first. That post will be coming soon, and in it I will break down the goal in the first tiny habit I’ll need to try. Whereas I used to attempt everything at once, I’m focusing on only one tiny habit. As an example, while I may write during the time I’m working on a different goal, I won’t make a tiny habit goal for writing. This will help me keep my focus on the one thing I’m trying to change.

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My tiny habits - welcome!

Hi there and welcome! This is a secondary blog for me to track my tiny habits. My life is paved with good intentions for change, but there haven't been many lasting results. I end up falling back into my more ingrained habits and I'm left feeling frustrated. More often than not, I fail because I try to tackle The Whole Big Thing at once and not just one thing but all the things I want to change. It becomes a chore and the satisfaction I thought I'd gain from changing is lost in the tediousness of it all. I end up feeling like a failure and my will to try is squashed. That's where this blog comes in. I'll post my ultimate goal and how I break it up into tiny habits. I'll then blog about my progress, what I've learned, and how to tweak the process for me. My first instinct was to say that I would post on here daily to track my progress, but that's just an example of my unrealistic expectations. As a compromise, I'll check in at least twice a month. Two posts a month. I think I can handle that.