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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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