Today's topic is Everlasting Happiness:
Starting to create a new habit is a way of rewiring your brain, rewiring your brain to make this habit as a second nature. We have been rewired since childhood to do so many things that today, we don't even think or know that we are doing things, it just automatically happens for us as our second nature.
I realised this when we moved to Canada, we never spoke about weather back home in India. We noticed here every conversation starts with weather. Our brain quickly learnt that this is the way to strike a conversation. Funny enough, we got into that habit and we do the same thing all the time and the worse part was I did that with my friends in India in my last visit. They just looked at me very strangely and did not know what to answer. I said, it is really nice out today, what is the temperature like, and they went , hmmm aaaa , hmmm around 30 degrees Celsius may be....lol cause people back home are never concerned about what is the temperature, as it is beautiful everyday :)
Making my point here, humans mimic very easily and our brains can be rewired easily if we repeat a task several times, it just becomes second nature. Keeping this in mind, we are calling upon this 30 day challenge to pick up a task/habit that you really want to and lets re-wire our brains to make it our habit forever.
Shawn Achor mentioned very nicely in his video where he says how one can re-wire their brain to have everlasting happiness.
To have everlasting happiness, we need to do these 5 things for next 21 days and our brains will be re-wired to feel positive everyday.
- 3 Gratitudes : Write down 3 new things everyday that you are grateful for
- Journalling: Journalling about one positive event in past 24 hours, helps you to re-live that moment
- Exercise : Tells brain that behavoir matters
- Meditate: Allows brain to focus
- Random acts of kindness: Write one positive email to someone in your social support network.
To help you all to start re-wiring your brain, we have these 30 day challenges that we want everyone to pick up from January 1st, 2013 and start submitting here on this blog. This will really help us to make a proclamation that : yes , I am going to take charge of my life and make a difference in my life and we all here will be each other's support structure and will help you all to reach your goal.
Feel free to drop comments below and we can start discussing about it to make you all ready to take up the challenge starting January 1st, 2013.
Notes: Inspired from Ted Video by Shawn Achor , check out this video for more information
http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html
