5 habits I struggle to form

(15 mins read) This post is about 5 things I like to do but I find hard. Because of this reason, forming these habits is almost impossible for me. The most important lesson of this post is that one can do what one finds to be hard, especially when the respective action is meaningful to one’s life. Make the day count!
p.s. This post may contain contradictory information, complaining and gratefulness all in one. I am a complex being, what can I say?

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How I switched from “have to do” to “get to do”. It wasn’t easy!

(10 mins read) In the last couple of days, as a result of what I was reading in The Daily Stoic book, I kept thinking about the difference between “have to do” and “get to do”. An implementation first step would be for me to rename my current “To do list” excel file “Get to do list”. Really, I listed mostly items I feel grateful to have the opportunity to do, but for a reason or another, I keep on procrastinating with getting them done. A switch in approach does not sound like a bad idea. But is it really all it takes to procrastinate less? I got the opportunity to actually practice it with one of the most dreaded items of my list.

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