Good Habits That Drastically Helps Me 📅
I always wonder about how it is always easier to break a habit than building a new one. Who else agrees? I bet most of you concur with me. In my midst of preparing for my entrance exam, I felt stressed at one point. In fact, VERY STRESSED. I started to listen to a motivational video that helped me quite a lot. I recommend you to watch this video of Team Fearless if you ever feel like giving up on whatever you're doing.
Ok, before I digress any further, here are the new habits that have massively helped me emotionally.
#1 Listening to a podcast as I do my skincare in the morning 🎧 + while doing my strength training 🏋🏻♀️
My morning routine will never be complete without listening to Jim Kwik's podcast. According from him, his podcast is mainly about supercharging your brain on how you can improve your memorizing and thinking skills, reading at a faster pace while retaining the information you read, boosting reading comprehension and many more. Overall, his podcast is not just the quintessential podcast that you think of. It's more of a coaching session with the host, Jim Kwik that will definitely bolster your brain performance. The duration of his podcast is usually short for his target audience is the busy people. Therefore, you can quickly learn all these hacks, tips and tricks, and lessons in less than 20 minutes. Perfect for people who are always on the go. Plus, he invites valuable guest speakers who are profoundly known in their specific fields.
Whenever I exercise, I always make it to a point to tune into Lavendaire's podcast. I specifically enjoy the novelty of listening to her stories and her realizations in life. Like Jim Kwik's podcast, she also invites guest speakers, but personally, I like her podcasts better when she's doing it alone rather than inviting them. At first, the way she speaks felt very scripted and unnatural, but after listening to her explanations, everything became clear on why she was like that. Apparently, she did her podcast not because of her own will but because she was forced to do so. By the middle part of the episodes, I find that she has finally relaxed and became very spontaneous. Perhaps, she already got the gist of how to do things when it comes to doing podcasts. Despite of these flaws, I totally recommend you to listen to her podcasts to help you for your self growth, motivations and inspire you to really pursue your goals and visions in life.
#2 Meditating for at least 10 to 15 minutes a day 🌿🧘
If someone comes up to me and asks me if I'm into meditating, my past self would absolutely say no. It's because I thought that meditating would not change me and that it will have no effects on me. But girl, I was wrong. It's true that you'll never know about how it will go unless you try it. Over the course of meditating for 3 weeks now, I realized that meditating is not about controlling your emotions, your stress level and the like. It's about letting go of your thoughts and focusing on your breath, as well as being present in the moment. It's especially helpful if you're mind is full of ruckus. It just basically helps you soothe your mind and be peaceful at that time.
Now, these are the apps that I recommend for meditating:
Headspace offers a free trial for those people who are interested in meditating. It's very user friendly and easy to follow. The design is also superb, making it enjoyable to use. The free packs for meditation in this app include the Basics (10 sessions), any of "everyday headspace" feature (only for 3 sessions) and every first session of any packs. In order for you to unlock the rest, you have to subscribe for monthly, annual or even for lifetime. I'd honestly continue to use this app if it was for free, but I had to drop it because the pricing is too expensive for me. It's just not reasonable for us students.
But do not fret, there is another app that works just as fine as HEADSPACE. It's called the 1 Giant Mind.
In this app, the speaker or the host for the meditation doesn't blab as much. It mainly tells you all the instructions in the beginning and ends it with a chime. So, you do get to meditate more silently and easily feel tranquil in no time. It also introduces mantras that are very helpful in meditating especially if you're a neophyte. After the meditation, you can watch free videos to help you more with meditating effectively. It also comes with a daily diary/review every after the sessions. I'd say that this app feels more organized than the Headspace app *coughs* and it's free 😛
#3 Learning 10 new vocabularies a day both in Japanese and in English
Expanding your vocabularies is always a good idea to do, especially if you want to be more eloquent in that certain language. There's something magical about being able to express how you feel using the new words that you learned. It makes you feel proud of yourself that you actually use the vocabs and retain it even after a long time, unlike when you memorize technical terms, it's easier for you to forget it like you never reviewed it before. In short, it feels rewarding to use what you've learned right off the bat.
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Take care,
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I do that, too.
TumugonBurahinI meditate.
I dont know Japanese...
but I can help you on English.
Im totally good in that, dear.
God bless your indelible soul.
I'd definitely appreciate your help! God bless you too! Thanks for dropping by!
Burahin