Displaced Homemakers

A woman who, after managing a household for years, is forced by financial necessity to find a wage-paying job. This blog is intended for the women who feel that their lives have been hit by a tornado, their tomorrows may experience a hurricane and their nights are sleepless. This blog is for the women who need to rebuild their lives, no matter the age and no matter the circumstance and for the women who needs to find resources, gather support to feel that they are not alone.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Changing behavior

If you want to change your behavior or a bad habit, like find a better job, or change your relations with people, it might be helpful to divide them into smaller objectives.  Start with one that comes first then set new objectives.  There is no need to make a list of objectives first.

Every objective must be clearly defined; e.g., if you want to reduce your weight, you may begin by deciding to take more exercise, but this is not all clearly defined.  It would be better to say that you intend to walk or cycle for 30 minutes each day.

Don't strive for perfection, instead of 30 minutes each day, decide to walk/cycle 30 minutes 5 days a week.  This leaves you room to achieve your goal.

If you want to make a big change, divide your objectives into a series of small goals or sub-goals.  This creates a step by step process towards obtaining your larger goal.  For example, your home is not organized and you want to re-organize your home.  Start with 30 minutes each day or 5 days a week with one room at a time.  Or you can decide to clean one room at a time on each Saturday when you have more time to complete your task.

Make your goals reasonable, do not create a goal that would be unrealistic and not obtainable.
There is never any hurry to make these changes, if you are working on the change, then you are already in the process of creating the change!

It is important to balance your life, instead of adding more stress into your life by creating unreasonable tasks.

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