The Magic Number Seven
I picked up an insight about following through on goals in my reading this week. Setting a goal that you will follow through on takes a bit more commitment than wishful thinking. I need to rally some brain power to back up my idea.
David Grogan asks himself in moments when he wants to quit to: "remember why he started to do something to begin with." I started to do the same thing when I felt like I did not want to follow through daily on a goal like getting up at a specific time.
To really synchronize my goal with a habit, based on my reading, you need to start asking why when you start the habit. Asking yourself why builds commitment to your goal. and the magic number of times to ask is seven. I grasp the value in building the commitment to my goals with a big push like this from the start. I am sure it makes for a huge block of neurons coordinate from the get-go. I now have a seven-point mental power point presentation with specific reasons why to push through my laziness and lame excuses.
Think of a goal as a dandelion. When you wish on a dandelion how many seeds does it let lose? Not one. Not a million. It shoots enough seed pods so that at least one is going to succeed in starting a new plant. With seven good reasons why I am doing something, one of them is going to get me where I want to be.
Notion Vision Board Template
I am stupid addicted to the notion app. It's my digital journal. There is a free personal use version I am about five years into using for my daily to do list and track my reading and other projects. It runs a bit slow with the use of a Thomas Frank "Second Brain" template builder that I would not recommend for personal use. I think if I took it off my Notion account the app would go back to working more quickly. I have an annoying delay when I type into pages. I am thinking of adding this vision board template in its place. An unusual way of looking at what I want to do could give me fresh insight as well as speed up my app.
The vision board idea, where did that come from KT? Lena Luther, voiced by Aisha Tyler, an acquaintance of my husband on the Harlequin Cartoon series has a vision board in her evil office. It's mostly pictures of her brother Lex Luther dying horrible deaths. And I thought, "Vision Board, what a good idea." Then I found Sara Arnold Hall and here we are, ready to create an evil Notion App Vision Board.