Slow Living + Micro Habits
How Micro Habits can help you slow down and live better!
This voiceover is an audio version of my Slow Sunday Letter below. It is unedited, so may have some stutters, imperfections, and background noise. I hope you enjoy listening to it anyway!
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Welcome back to another Slow Sunday Letter! I hope you have had a slow and gentle week.
If there was an invisible string tying together Slow and Gentle Living it would be formed of micro habits. Slow Living is built on a foundation of intention, and gentle living is built on a foundation of self compassion. What they both require to be impactful is micro habits. In today’s Slow Sunday Letter, we are going to explore micro habits together - so grab a cuppa, get cosy and let’s see how building some micro habits of your own can help improve your life!
What are Micro Habits?
Micro habits are defined as small, manageable, simple daily actions that build up to help you achieve your aspirations.
We live in a world that champions instant gravitation and immediate results, this can often lead to impatience and a pressure to set goals that are ambitious and deliver immediately. If we don’t meet these high standards, and start seeing instant results from our goal setting, it can quickly turn toxic and negative, as we lose faith in ourselves. Our motivation dwindles, our self confidence plummets and we turn against ourselves assuming that our lack of will power or ability was the problem.
But what if the problem is that we are all too used to ‘biting off more than we can chew’? In our desire for instant results, we don’t allow ourselves the slow burn of success.
Micro Habits are tiny, every day actions that over time build up and stand strong with you. The little and often approach… the small daily commitments that make change truly possible.
The most important thing to remember is start simple - start small - let’s just get started!