The 3 D’s You Need to Drop Before 2024
If you really want to see change…
If you were asked to track and make note of everything you do on a given day, you’ll notice some chunks of that day left blank. Because those are the time blocks when you’re in a deeper state of living on auto-pilot. These are the moments throughout the day when you open social media without even thinking.
When you’re stuck deliberating and questioning your potential when making a decision.
When intrusive thoughts and negative self-talk take over.
When laziness creeps in and makes you believe you’ll have more time tomorrow.
But it’s time to take back control of the trajectory of your life.
If you want to make the most of your time heading into the new year, you need to leave these 3 habits behind.
1/ Dwelling on the past
If you can't go back in time and fix or change it, then don’t think about it. It’s as simple as that. Don’t waste your energy on rethinking the past, the decisions you made, and the regrets you have. What’s the point? Instead, shift your attention to the present.
Otherwise, a few years from now you’ll dwell on the times you wasted time thinking about your past (again). Use that time to think about what you can do now for a better future while remembering to focus on the now. What can you do now? What can you do now that your future self will thank you for?
2/ Doomscrolling your time away
The next time you say you have no time, look at your screen time. How is it? You have the time. You just don't have your priorities set. If you don't have time, make time.
Whatever you care about enough, you always find a way to make time for it. So if your excuse is not enough time, then you just don't care enough for that thing.
3/ Delaying execution of ideas
There’s no such thing as “when the time is right.” The time is now. Stop putting off starting new projects, side hustles, habits, routines, courses, or even a career transition. Develop and maintain self-discipline. Don’t expect anyone else to give you that push and motivation you need to start.
These 3 bad habits take away from the one thing we can never get back — time.
Time is our most precious commodity and yet most of us live as if we have all the time in the world. Time is free, but priceless. You can spend it, but you cannot store it. Once you have used it, you can never get it back. — Reimagine
