Small habits, big benefits

Man is naturally designed by God in such a way that his life is changed or improved by small steps and not by one big action or revolutionary steps. Famous Danish journalist Jakaf Bries says that whenever I am worried, I think of a stonecutter who has been trying to break a stone for hours with a hammer and chisel. But the stone is not missing.

But after hitting the stone 300 times, finally the stone breaks on the 301st time
. Jackoff says that the stone-carver did not achieve this success as a result of the last attempt he made, but because of the three hundred times he had hit the stone with the hammer.
Our life also works on the same principle but whenever we make an intention like if a person decides to lose weight the first thing that comes to his mind is why should I eat a salad instead of a burger. ? Despite eating salad for many days, I am not losing weight and because of this thinking, the person mentioned above does not adopt this small positive habit. Of course, from the outside, we feel that there is no change in our weight, but this small habit is working its magic inside the body. To understand this with an example, suppose you Set a goal that your room is dirty and you have to clean it, after a few hours of hard work you clean your room, but if you are not in the habit of keeping your room clean on a daily basis. If you keep yours, the room will be dirty again after 2 or 3 days. That is, if you want a permanent solution, not a temporary one.

You will have to take care of the room on a daily basis, keeping things in their designated places.
Most of us think that the environment or people around us do not affect us much, but the reality is quite the opposite, if you live in a good environment, it will also have a positive effect on you. An example can be given of a well-known American doctor from Boston, Annie Throndik, who observed in her hospital that apart from healthy people who came to the hospital, patients also bought drinks from the vending machines and cafeterias there. drink She also placed water bottles in the vending machine and cafeteria as an experiment, and when she audited the cafeteria's earnings a week later, she was shocked to see the results. He observed that the sale of beverage bottles has reduced by 60% while the sale of water bottles has increased tremendously. Dr. Annie was also happy with her observation because she did it through advertising or a campaign The medium did not encourage people to use water instead of drinks, but also placed water bottles with the drinks, which yielded positive results. This also gives us an idea of ​​human behavior that the improvement of a person does not come only because of the positive thoughts running inside him, but the good environment around him also affects him.
In keeping with this characteristic of human behavior, utility stores place expensive products in a place where people can easily see them and pick them up easily. In this regard, in 1970, Dutch researchers conducted a study in which the habits of residents of a certain area of ​​Amsterdam were observed, these were the people who were using 40% less electricity than the rest of the area. The researchers wondered how this was, even though these people had the same electrical appliances that people in the rest of the area were using. The meter installed in the basement was 40% more electricity and the people whose houses had the meter installed outside the house near the main gate, they were using 40% less electricity. In fact, the advantage of installing the electricity meter outside the house was that the residents of these houses kept an eye on when the electricity was used. How much electricity is being used unnecessarily and where? Therefore, if we also want to adopt such a positive habit, we can change the environment according to us.
For example, if we want to take the medicine on time, then the medicine bottle or bottle should be kept on the table next to the bed so that the medicine is easy to access and remember to take the medicine on time. Similarly, if you If the doctor has advised you to drink more water, you should keep a bottle of water in your home or office in the place where you spend most of your time as soon as you wake up.
But while it is important to adopt new and positive habits, it is also important to let go of bad habits. For example, if you are addicted to using social media, then in order to get rid of this habit, you must write down all the disadvantages of using social media that you are facing in your daily life. Similarly, another step you can take to get rid of social media overuse or any other bad habit is to make it difficult to access, for this you can use difficult or long passwords on your social media accounts. You can put it on or put your phone away from you so that you don't get disturbed by frequent notifications. You may be surprised to know that in a study, scientists observed the effects of listening and seeing notification tunes on social media on the human mind. American scientists were surprised to see this

Similarly, Facebook's notification icon is designed in such a way that once you look at it, you become curious as to why the notification came. The solution to this problem has also been suggested by scientists keeping in view the human behavior that you keep a person or a friend with you who will tell you from time to time about the harm that social media is causing in your life, so that you Any bad habit can be broken, but here it is most important that you tolerate your friend's criticism, lest you get tired of his constructive criticism and get rid of the friend instead of the habit.