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Lexington, MA 02420
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- My Mentors's Advice -
for your daily health care |
Vol. 53 How To Continue Homework
This is a continuance of the last time.
It is said that everything you want to do becomes your habit if you continue
for 3 weeks.
So how can
we continue homework?
I will talk about 3 secretes for continuing
homework.
First, don't try to complete everything at the
beginning.
For example, if you are recommended to do Finger Nail Massage and feel
like it is difficult to do 3 times a day, you can do it only once a day
at the beginning. If you can do it everyday, you can think about increasing
the number of massage. The important thing is to continue everyday even
if the amount is small.
Second, start a part of
homework even if you don't feel like doing it.
This is similar to the first one. For example, you were recommended to
do half body bathing for 40 minutes everyday, but you don't feel like doing
it on a day. Anyway, get in the bathtub even for 5 minutes. You can finish
by that, but if you get in the bathtub for 5 minutes, you must feel you
want to stay for 5 minutes more, 5 minutes more… and you can stay in the
bathtub for 40 minutes without notice. So please start a part of homework
as you don't need to feel like completing it.
Third, don't blame yourself even if you didn't complete or forgot the
homework.
Blaming yourself decreases your motivation to do homework. In addition
to that, it becomes stress which decreases the water in the glass.
For example, let us suppose that you want to stop smoking. You stopped
smoking for 9 days but you smoked a piece of cigarette on the 10th day.
You feel guilty and blame yourself who failed to stop smoking.
But if you are a person who smoke 20 cigarettes a day, the amount you smoked
is 1/200 for 10 days. What you achieved is so great. Don't you think? If
you just continue 5 days more, it becomes 1/300. There is no reason for
you to blame yourself.
So instead, when you do homework, please praise yourself even if you don't
complete it and feel as if water in your glass is increasing.
We can do only what we can do because we can't
do what we can't do.
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