How one good habit led to more good habits

Back during the middle of the pandemic, I was lost. 

I remember sleeping 20 hours, eating something, then going back to sleep for another 20.

It was like that for awhile then I could really tell my health had gone broke.

Sticking to just 1 good habit leads to more good habits

At the time, I read that one small habit and sticking to it is what I needed to do, but I doubted that just one habit won't change anything. But there really wasn't anything I felt doing so I played a HIIT Youtube on and started to exercise once a day.

For a few days, it was one exercise, eat, then go back to sleep. But sticking to that somehow led to another small action, then another, and another.

There were days when I would want to continue the exercise that automatically plays after the video ends. I remember I was so out of shape I needed to skip some of the moves but it got better.

Then it led me to add more habits over the past two years or so.

• Sleeping early and rising early
• Walking 10,000 steps/day
• Live on a surplus every month(Income>Spending)
• Invest 30,000JPY/month
• Learn a language on Duolingo everyday
• Eating mekabu seaweed everyday
• Tweeting everyday about finance
• Read a quote everyday

I could never imagine I would come this far the day I thought just one small habit would lead to this outcome.

• My investment has grown to more than 400,000JPY in a year.
• My weight has decreased from 104kg during the pandemic to 82kg.
• I'm in better mood and it's a lot more stable than before.

Keeping and adding good habits while trashing the bad ones

It's ideal if only good habits stick, but bad ones do as well.

The bad ones I picked up were:

• Watching Youtube videos too much
• drinking and snacking
• long commute and night shifts

Bad habits come from wrong decisions and stress.

Just like one good habit leads to other good habits, I learned that bad habits also tend to lead to other bad habits.

But it's not a problem to try new things and find out. The important thing is that I reflect on my actions and find out which are good and bad.

Once I reflect on it, it's important to keep the good ones, add better ones and trash the bad ones.

You can't suddenly hop on the summit of a mountain

Good habits have to go step by step. 

Right now I keep having thoughts that I want to start a business food related or education related, but it cannot be done instantly.

What I can do is to add more good habits of tweeting what I learned everyday food and education related.

Reading about it. Blogging what I learned.

And the compounding of that will lead to more outcomes and gets me closer to what I want to do.

Thanks for reading:)

Thanks for reading the content👋

In the blog I will share things I learned especially about finance and life advice. 

Japanese are relatively good savers when it comes to money, and I've been realizing it comes from good habits and mindsets that anyone can learn.

So, over time I'd like to share what I learned, and hope to learn from you, too.

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