Are Your Habits Sabotaging You?

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Welcome back to The becoming the big knee podcast. I'm your host

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Djemilah Birnie and you are tuning into minute madness, a

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little dose of epicness delivered in five minutes or

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What What's up, you guys, it's Djemilah Birnie here and today I

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wanted to talk to you about the details and the importance of

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the little things. Now, I know that you have all heard that how

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you do one thing is how you do everything right? Well, I want

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to kind of expand on that a little bit more. So a lot of

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times in our lives, we kind of let those little things slide,

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let's think of like the small things like making your bed or

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doing your dishes every night, or, you know, put finishing your

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load of laundry, starting the laundry, doing the laundry, and

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then finishing the load and putting it away, right. So where

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the discipline where you are really training your brain to be

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better comes in all of those little things that might feel

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insignificant, um, in to that you are completing, because it

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shows that you are focusing on those little things, and you

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have that discipline. So I have a list of the things that I have

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to do

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every day. So before I go to bed, I have to do all of the

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dishes, I have to have a clean sink, that is my completion of

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the day. So I'm normally really exhausted when I'm doing this

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task. And even if there is like just one or two dishes in the

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sink, I could easily just be like, Oh, it's you know, it's

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fine. I can just do it in the morning while I'm making

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breakfast. Because when I do this final no dish saint kind of

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completion of my day, is after I've already been working all

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day, I've been up since five in the morning. And I typically do

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two workout today. And my second workout I do at nighttime around

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nine. So I finished that workout around 10. So I am absolutely

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exhausted by the time I get up to go to bed. And when I come in

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from that workout, I'm so tired. And all I want to do is just lay

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down. But I make sure to do those dishes, whether there are

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just is just one dish, or whether there's an entire sink

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full of dishes, I make sure to have that sink clean, because

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that is an indication for me that my day is complete. That is

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kind of my little little task of the day that shows me all right,

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your day is done. And you may now go to bed and start getting

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ready for bed. And what that does is it helps build that

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mental fortitude, it helps build that mental toughness that even

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when you are so tired, you're still focused on those little

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details, you will still go that extra mile and do the little

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things because over time, the little things compound into big

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things, little by little a little becomes a lot, right. So

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if these little tiny things every single day over and over

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again, when we do them, they become a lot. And what this is

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doing is training your brain to complete those little details

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that may seem or feel insignificant in the moment, but

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actually have a great impact over time. So the other thing is

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like making the bed so I always make my bed in the morning that

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is like that's me completing that cycle of sleeping like my

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sleep ends when I make the bed. And then that's triggering me to

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go into the day to start my daily activities. And it's just

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a very small thing that only takes a couple of moments. Yet

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it takes a lot of discipline, because I could easily just like

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it's not that important, but it is because when we see it, the

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effect that that has on our subconscious mind of having a

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clean space of having a made bed of having a clean sink is a lot

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Okay, as opposed to seeing that mess. And our makes our brain

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feel more behind which is kind of a weird concept because it's

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such a small thing, but I'm telling you, it works. It really

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really does work. So remember, little by little, a little

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becomes a lot those little details, those little things

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that might seem insignificant, might just be the most

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significant things.

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getting to where you want to go and training your brain to

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become and do the hard things that will get you to where you

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want to go.

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