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MIRACLE Challenge: Day 7

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The MIRACLE Roundabout

Living one’s MIRACLE habits is a lifestyle and a lifetime commitment. To show up daily demands that we do what is in our power to keep it interesting. What can be more BadAss than bringing your creativity into the picture. It will help you feel more committed, express yourself, and keep your practices fresh and new. How do you like the MIRACLE Roundabout way for a change?

Miracleroundabout7aprilToday is the 7th day of my MIRACLE April Challenge. This is a great day for check-in. Ideally, one wants to check in daily. I am content with having done brief check-in’s of this kind during the week and my goal is to at least once a week get to the ‘formal’ daily check-in. Questions to ask yourself are:

  • What went well?
  • What ONE thing will I do differently tomorrow?
  • ONE lesson I learned is…
  • One NEW THING I did today…
  • Did I do my BEST today to make today COUNT?

Instead of counting the days, make TODAY COUNT

I Got The MIRACLE MEMO

miraclememomove7aprilIt’s not always doable to write memo’s for all one’s daily habits. Sometimes, one can only get to one memo, and that’s great. It’s never about perfection or being good. It’s about doing one’s best in the context of one’s circumstances. Sometimes, especially over time, all one needs is to refresh one memo (Three to Thrive), here and there. Hang onto your memos and use them as puzzle pieces or menu items, you can move around. I love acronyms and find it meaningful to name my workout challenges W.O.C’s. My Sunday W.O.C. is called SCRIPT, which reminds me of my intention to be self-determined instead of being victim to circumstances. I choose to be self-scripted – also referred to as ‘unscripted’ because no one else is writing my script.

This is what my script workout looks like.

S-C-R-I-P-T: Sunday W.O.C

scriptwocsunday7aaprilI am very fascinated with the idea of Bullet Journals, which believe it or not, I only heard about 2 or 3 weeks ago! Over the years, I have played with different formats, and see how closely they resemble what I see about Bullet Journals online. I am slowly finding my own way and seeing how to make more of a working system out of it, while sustaining room for creativity and flexibility!

 

MIRACLE Challenge: Day 6

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THREE TO THRIVE: Priority Actions
MIRACLE MEMOS

MIRACLE Memos

I am playing with the idea of ‘sending’ myself MIRACLE Memos, as part of my evening routine, already selecting the three actions I will focus on as part of my miracle routine the next day. I am finding that this sends a message to my subconscious and works as a promise I am making to myself. I make the AGREEMENT with self, choose to affirm that I am the kind of person who keeps her promises to herself and accept these actions as an inevitability!

This way, the next day, I wake up primed to make it work. Read here what Brian Tracy says of this habit of choosing 3 actions from a list of actions… The Law of Priorities…

My Day 6 MIRACLE Routine

THREE TO THRIVE!
Everyday is a MIRACLE

LISTS & LOGS

I have expanded my L of MIRACLE to more officially embrace the idea of lists and logs. This embraces habits such as keeping logs to track your habits and works wonderfully with workouts and food logs, amongst others.

MIRACLE Weekly Check-In

A daily check-in gives one the opportunity to track one’s progress, notice what’s going well and plan for the next day. At the end of the week, on the second last day, when I still have a chance to make up for any shortfalls, I do a weekly check-in.

This day 6, check-in is more comprehensive than the daily one and focuses on commitments for week ahead. Count it as part of your read and reflection, and as your TA DA! checklist. It helps to see it as a SUCCESS log!

MIRACLE Weekly Check-in
MIRACLE Weekly Check-in

The IDENTITY-CHECK  Question

How can I reinforce the parts of my IDENTITY that serve me and unshackle myself from the pieces that no longer work for me?

MIRACLE Challenge Day 5

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Live Your DREAMS, Make MIRACLES Happen
DREAMS and MIRACLE Success Logs

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are

~Theodore Roosevelt

Go the Distance

The reality of challenges and behaviour change is that new habits work when you work them. I have found that when I work my DREAMS, my DREAMS work for me. When I stop working them, they stop working. It can be immensely frightening and frustrating that one has to show up everyday AND results are only sustainable and lasting, when one shows up everyday.

Some days, a lot of other things are going on too, that makes it more challenging to keep up with one’s own best intentions.

It can be hard to acknowledge and accept this reality, that what I am doing today, I will be doing in some form or the other tomorrow, and the next day and the next. At the same time, one can appreciate that small acts are wins, they count and make a difference. Small ‘acts’ in terms of failure to act, also matter.

On Becoming the BEST VERSION OF YOURSELF

Every action is a vote for the type of person you want to be

~James Clear, Atomic Habits

We are talking the long haul, the big picture, going the distance. To manage this reality, it helps to see this process as a matter of IDENTITY change AND UPGRADE. You are choosing to become a certain type of person. As you navigate your day, you can ask yourself a question of your choosing. I ask myself:” What would a more audacious ANEESAH do?” (Aneesah is my name).

The MIRACLE of YOU
On Becoming the BEST VERSION of Yourself!

Read and Reflect

My favorite chapter in Atomic Habits by James Clear is the one one identity and how each action is a vote for oneself. Here is a link he posted 5 minutes ago, sharing the chapter with additional notes. James Clear on Identity and voting for yourself

MIRACLE Challenge: Day 4

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MIRACLE Challenge, April: Day 4

Visualization

Imagination is a birthright we have that animals do not. It takes us to the level of Creator and allows us to manifest our dreams. Seeing something in your mind’s eye first, helps one actualise it. What are your daily visualisation practices? What do you actively use your imagination to help you with?

  • You can use your imagination to plan, prime and prepare for an important event, personal or professional.
  • You can use it to help you with the mental rehearsal part of your workout to get your head in the game.
  • You can use it to visualise victory, big or small e.g. making the right food choices in stressful situations
  • You can use it for fun and relaxation as you drift off to sleep, e.g. walking on a beach
  • You can use it to say “Good Night” to someone you love who is far away
  • You can use it to imagine your body regenerating at night
  • You can use it to imagine waking up with joy in your heart

The options are infinite!

Saying GoodNight

What is your evening routine? Do you find it challenging to fall asleep? When you wake up in the middle of the night, are you able to fall asleep again? One strategy, I call TA DA! where I mentally list 5 things I achieved for the day. You can do a mental checklist using the MIRACLE acronym. It will look something like this:


❤️ I moved my body

🧡 I imagined a successful workout

💛 I did some reading and reflection
💚 I practised my affirmations and used breathing to calm myself
💙 I counted my blessings (this helps one sleep too)
🖤 I’m working on a list right now!
💜 Sleep, I embrace you! I also turned off digital devices one hour before sleep

Allow yourself to really get a sense of the person you are becoming and feel a deep sense of pride in your efforts.

Saying Goodnight

As a parting gift for the day, I would like to share a link to a creative exercise called “Saying Goodnight”. It was created by a mentor of mine and helps one calm ones racing mind and recruit one’s imagination for a good night’s sleep. Here is the link: https://lifevise.com/saying-goodnight-sleep-well/

 

 

Tracking my MIRACLE Habits

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Have Fun with memo sheets!

Tracking your MIRACLE habits does not have to be a chore. Give yourself permission to let it be fun. I bring my creativity into play and experiment with various things. Because the MIRACLE acronym can be represented through color coding, it lends itself phenomenally well to this kind of play. Each MIRACLE category is represented by a color of the rainbow. In this way, simply writing any movement related aspect on red paper, is easy to organise and reference back, write insights, new plans, even what went well and changes to make. These moveable sheets of paper makes it easy for check in, and to carry around in a small notebook or plastic (transparent) envelop or any other way you wish.

Use your memo notes to scribble your TO DO and to check off the boxes, creating your own TA DA! list as you go along.

E= Embrace CHANGE

You will notice I changed E=embrace the evening, electronics out, for Embrace Change. When MIRACLE referred only to my evening ritual, it was about the evening, turning off screens and generally being aware of ones choices regarding social media curfew at night and seizing the opportunity to enjoy a new part of ones day. Now that I have decided to use MIRACLE for morning and evening routines, I expanded the “E” to be more all embracing. It now represents, the change from day to night, from one sort of activity to next, and again, from night to day when one wakes up. In the morning it reminds you, perhaps you wish to extend your social media curfew and enter a self-care segment first. Extend this perhaps to a little work if you are a writer, for example, or any other priority you have before you turn your attention to social media and fun surfing.

Creating the Embrace Change category has made me more aware of the changes I am making in all areas of my life, and not only day to night and night to day. It makes me conscious of changes I am already embracing, and changes I would like to see. It also directs my attention to where I can more fully embrace changes I have initiated so they become more firmly established as a NEW NORMAL!