Our cities are not as planned as our brains are. A good town planning is a necessity for the cities we live in, but not so for our brain. Our brain forms definitive patterns with the information it receives and processes; these patterns are then called as our experience. With these patterns, it therefore becomes that much more difficult to make / see new connections.
We exhibit caution (unconsciously) when it comes to chaning lanes of our thinking much the same way we desist changing lanes on a highway. While it is a good practice of not changing lanes on highway , it’s not so good when it comes to changing our thinking lanes, as it is perilous to innovation. (Seeing things in new way)
The word HABIT is interesting combination of letters, remove H, A BIT remains, remove A, still BIT remains, remove B, IT remains. What it is does, is that it make our thinking linear and predictable. So the truth is it is very difficult to change habits, not withstanding our best efforts and resolutions.
I found simple ways of changing habits by practicing a change in our day-to-day routine, sharing some of those tricks with you.
Use different toothpastes (one brand for morning & another for the bed time), shaving cream (use shave foams & tubes ), and razor, bathing soaps
Change your drink (tea, coffee, juice & different variety every time)
Change your mobile ring tones as frequently as possible
Change Screen Savers on your mobile / laptop/ home PC
Put up a different dressing combination each time
Don’t stick to one brand of clothing, have range spanning from up-market apparels to street smart clothing (Clothes from fashion streets)
If you read only fiction, read not-fiction, comics, story books
If you have IDLI for your breakfast everyday try having something different, (sometimes other than south Indian cuisine….I mean)
Try some different cuisine than you had last time when you visited the restaurant
Try & change the restaurant you had last dined.
If you like action movies, see a love story, fiction or vice a versa
Change jogging tracks; change your everyday walking / jogging route
If you like STRAWBERRY ICE-CREAM, try other flavors too; try different fruit juices or fruits
Try different routes for going to office by taking different modes of transportation
Try & surprise your boss by sitting late or coming early (don’t forget to put up a mail to him, it helps, at least in some places & saves you from getting a pink slip, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….)
Try & Talk to at least one person everyday, make a new connection
Change password every week and puzzle the system even at the cost of puzzling yourself
Change your CAFÉ COFEE DAY partner (of course if you are a bachelor, it applies to both genders equally…. HAHAHAHAHAHA…)
And last but not the least by taking inspirations from all the above
For GOD SAKE, DON”T CHANGE YOUR SPOUSE (HAHAHAHAHA….)
I have started practicing all this since about a year now (leaving the last two of course), when are you starting??????
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
