Labels: change , eating better diet , living best life
The Power of Three is a concept from a social scientist Brian Wansink, who believes that "if you repeat a behavior for 28 days, it becomes a new habit. You can change your default behavior to something else." I think that the concept is brilliant because it can help in dieting or changing eating habits, (i.e drinking two glasses of water for every glass of soda drinks, including a protein at breakfast, and eating French fries only on weekends) I thought to myself that it could work to about anything.
So this is how it works. At the beginning of every month, you can decide on what behavior you can change. As you make a conscious decision on changing that behaviour, you will be surprised how your life becomes better.
For this month (although it is not the beginning of the month), I have decided on these three things:
1. Take deep breaths and slow down. As a mother of three boys, I am always in a hurry to accomodate all their needs (from breakfast to lunches to dinner and all other things in between). I have found myself always rushing and screaming, "hurry up, we are going to be late!" or "my goodness, I forgot I had to the laundry!" Now, I have decided that whenever I feel that I need to rush, I will take deep breaths and slow down so I can chanel positive energy that I need instead of wasting energy whining and being all stressed. I now have the thinking, "what's the worst thing that can happen if we are late for 2 minutes for school or if I did not do the laundry today?"
2. Inspire my children. I got this idea from an article that I read (I forgot the name) on how to connect with your children. One mom wrote that she always put a surprise on her children's lunchbox and her children love it. It makes her happy knowing that her children are thinking of her everytime they open the lunchbox. For my own purpose, I will write funny jokes on post-it-notes for my son Janvier, and love notes for my son Justin. ^^
3. Drink 2 glasses of water every time I have coffee. I am such a coffee lover I should be a H2O lover too!
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