I love to read and I love to write and I love to make videos and I love to do a bunch of creative things.
Now recently I've been struggling with this and I think I know one of the major reasons, why.
And that is my environment.
When it comes to changing your behavior that is implementing new habits in your life for getting rid of old bad habits...
I think a lot of people are under the impression that the only thing that they can
do to help themselves along is to have more intent to have a deeper desire to change.
But this is not really what the studies show, nor is it what come, my, own personal experience has shown.
One of the best ways to to change your behavior to change your habits actually is to change your environment and
looking, back at my, own life the times, where i've
implemented the best habits or where i've started the worst ones they've typically all been at times of transition
so coming back to university for second semester was a time where I implemented a bunch of really good habits and
coming, back home for the summer
was the time that I implemented some kind of bad ones and I lost good ones.
See at these times of transitions are when your behavior is most vulnerable most malleable
And when you understand this you can use it to your benefit and you can use it to implement good habits
by changing your environment. So I'm trying to get my, good habits back
and kind of drop the bad ones that I've picked up and to make this easier on myself to make this more doable,
just change my environment a little bit . It's pretty subtle I just rearranged the furniture in my room I did it intentionally
and I'll explain that in a second but just rearranging it enough so that I.. I
feel like I'm in a little bit of a different place it's just enough of a mental cue to remind
myself that my behavior is slightly different. So the way that I rearranged my room I did it kind of carefully actually.
I basically wanted to separate the different parts of my room
by the behavior that I wanted to do in each of them. So if I'm gonna
be sleeping I only want to be doing that on my bed obviously and that's the only thing that I want to be doing that on my bed
because if I'm you know watching videos writing, reading on my bed as well my brain gets kind of confused
by that. There are interesting studies that show
that you actually sleep better if all that you do in your bed is sleep. It kind of makes sense because you're
associating the task with the plates.
Similarly I
wanted my desk to be a place of work. I wanted that to be the only thing that I do at my
desk I'll, be coding I'll be you know, working if I was doing schoolwork for example I do it at
my desk and then I also wanted that place for creativity I wanted a place to
read, to write, to
work on my videos and so on. And so what I did is I created that I just put a little chair in my corner,
put a bunch of books around it, put a lamp next to it and well that's where I am right now.
Now it's only been a few days
Since I've done this but the impacts I've already felt it. I mean this corner is the biggest one, it's my
Creative corner if you will. I've been reading a ton, and that's amazing because I wasn't reading a lot
for the past few weeks I'll be real with you I'm trying to read a book a week
this year and I was falling a little bit behind and it wasn't that I was necessarily reading much more difficult books than
before it's just that I wasn't making time for it. And now that I have a place where I can intentionally have creative only time
I've been fighting a lot, more time in my
schedule to be reading and to be writing and so on.
So it's been a really great place for me. So yeah I mean basically I just spend hours in my corner surrounded by
books reading a bit of a nerd that way. So this whole thing kind of got me thinking
right a lot of messages that I get from people are talking about how to implement good habits in their life
and how to get rid of negative habits
and
well the most obvious advice that I can give to you is if you're trying to change your behavior at all
which i think a lot of my viewers are, then change your environment. Just a little bit. It took
me what like an hour to move things around in my room and the payoffs have been
well worth that. So I just think you know if you have an hour to spare
maybe spend it putting yourself into a new environment. It doesn't have to be a drastic change, just
rearrange your furniture a little bit and then combining that with the intentionality i think you'll find that it's a lot
easier to change your behavior.
So you might have noticed something kind of weird and that is that this is a short video and I'm
also, uploading it on a Tuesday, which is very weird and different for me. Um the reason being
is that I'm trying to make more videos. I.. I really am enjoying
Youtube right now it's kind of the thing that is giving me the most energy and I'm having the most fun with.
So
yeah
I'm trying to do two videos a week so Tuesday videos are gonna be shorter a little bit more
experimental and Friday videos are gonna be longer form video essays as I've been doing for the past
few weeks, months and so on. So if you're only interested in those Friday videos then they're still coming
don't worry but hopefully you like the Tuesday videos as well and feel free to leave a comment down below let me know
what you think and if you like
them feel free to leave a like as always don't forget to subscribe and i will see you on Friday.