When learning to write, I often hear the saying: "Completion is more important than perfection." This encourages us to keep writing. Even if we don't write well at the beginning or can't write, we must persist. Keep writing. Slowly you will discover the power of fission.
In fact, the same goes for developing habits. Completion is more important than perfection. When forming a habit, we often use punch-in records to remind ourselves to form a habit. I hope that in such a subtle way, I can slowly turn the habit into my daily behavior.
Sometimes, we set a check-in cycle for ourselves. You are never allowed to miss out, and you must clock in with perfect scores every day to be considered successful.
In fact, when we develop habits, we can also allow ourselves to make occasional small mistakes. Didn’t or forgot to clock in. However, the author of Mastering Your Habit reminds us to never miss a beat twice.
If you miss a day, try to get back into your usual routine as soon as possible. In this case, on the one hand, you must uphold the mentality that completion is more important than perfection, and only then will you allow yourself to make small mistakes. On the other hand, you make it up in time the next day after the first delay. Such a remedy will also give you the motivation to keep going. If you think about giving up from the first time you forget, then you may abandon the habit you want to develop.
Of course, it will be more beneficial for us if we can make the process of developing good habits feel physical and mental pleasure.
On the contrary, when avoiding bad habits, we can also take some powerful measures. For example, the author mentioned external supervision and accountability partners.
When I was preparing for the public examination, I implemented a self-monitoring method.
After I studied the test questions, I found that I wanted to give up on the science part, because I was not very good at science since I was a child. I wanted to focus my score on liberal arts, but when it comes to data analysis, I absolutely can't give up. If I give up, I won't be able to achieve the average passing score.
So I forced myself to learn methods, learn techniques, and learn this content well. At that time, my error rate was very high. And I have a high error rate. It doesn’t mean that I can’t do it well or don’t know the method, but I often make mistakes due to carelessness.
Then I set up this kind of punishment game for myself: every time I made a mistake in a question due to carelessness, I would take out ten yuan of my own cash and put it in an envelope, which could not be used. . This is equivalent to deducting ten yuan for every wrong question.
In this way, do you think I will say that I have found a solution to improvement?
Actually no, my biggest gain is that I accumulated a small amount of pocket money without knowing it, haha, because I made too many mistakes.
But I can only look at that money, but not spend it. So when I was doing the questions, I still had to pay attention to the problem of carelessness.
Therefore, to eliminate bad habits, by establishing things that can cut off your happiness, such a reverse operation will still be helpful for us to correct bad habits.
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