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What's one habit you want to develop and one you want to drop?
Our habits assist us in growing or limit our ability to do so. It is indeed not an easy job to give up our bad habits and replace them with positive ones. It requires dedication and willpower.
How do you define if any particular habit of yours is good or not?
What do you practice to overcome it?
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Niko Dovidija
Replace mindless scrolling with reading 😬
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@sachin_shajan Yea, for sure. We shouldn't pressure ourselves with it tho, gradual improvement is still king 😉💪
@niko_dovidija I use Blocksite blocker. And put in all my time wasting sites. Still I turn it off and on like 3 times a day. But what it really helps with is making me conscious of the fact that I am about to waste time. And quite often I see that blocker and say you know what, I don't want to waste time
@niko_dovidija Hey Niko, I’m going around and asking solo developers, what do you use to manage your multiple side projects, brainstorm and explore ideas, track goals, and plan out tasks for apps? Thanks!
To develop: Hitting the gym atleast 3 times a week.
To drop: Watching Netflix after work.
Waking up early in the morning and sleep by 11pm instead of staying up late. Although I am working during those late nights, but still want to shift towards daytime.
To develop - Write daily
To drop - Overthinking about writing better, stops me to write.
@sushil_sharma2 Hey Sushil, I’m going around and asking solo developers, what do you use to manage your multiple side projects, brainstorm and explore ideas, track goals, and plan out tasks for apps? Thanks!
I want to develop the habit of tracking my calorie intake and drop the habit of emotional eating.
Not developing, but I want to workout every day as I did before :c. Definitely, I want to stop going to bed very late.
I need to add my reading habit back & drop my late night working habit
Yayyy Absolute drop overthinking.
Too many things I want to develop: reading, healthy diet, 30-min meditation everyday...
@frankie_zhang Oh yeah Healthy Diet! But Who is gonna say NO to fried chicken and Bubble tea ?!
Atomic Habits by James Clear is an incredible book all about this. i.e. building productive ones and getting rid of bad ones. Changed my whole perspective.
I used to be hard on myself when I'd miss a workout. Now I start each day with two cups, one with 10 marbles in it and another that's empty. Throughout the day, I take 5-10min breaks and do a bit of exercise. When I do, I move one marble.
It motivates me to move all of them by the end of the day. I get competitive with myself when it's getting later in the afternoon and I still have some in there. Then I feel a greater sense of accomplishment when I move the last one.
It's all about starting small and building on the habit.
To develop:Book reading and connect to nature
To drop: Overthinking and asumptions
Develop: Spend two hours every day learning some new technologies
Drop: Watching reels on Instagram and youtube stories
Waking up early, regular workouts which I need to develop and drop procrastinating