FORERUNNERS COURSE🎯SESSION 8

  Commit and Recommit

(Courtesy: Rushdhi Ismail, Best Version Of You. Slightly edited)

  Assalamu Alaikum 

 When you commit yourself to creating masterpiece days or any related new habits, commit to it 100%.

 We want to have "bright lines" about what is and what is not acceptable behaviour when creating our habits. And we should commit 100% to obeying our bright lines. 

 In simple terms, bright lines are "zero-tolerance" rules you put on yourself.  

 Now here is the thing, when you start to create new habits, despite your 100% bright-line commitment, you'll inevitably fail. You'll come across a lot of challenges. 

 Because creating a new habit isn't an easy task. You need to put a "fight" with your brain until you overcome it. The initial stage of habit creation is an energy-expensive thing for our brain. Until the brain gets rewired to the new rules, it takes time. 

 The notion that a habit is created within 28 days isn't scientifically validated. In fact, scientific studies confirm that on average, people who were trying to learn new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging took a depressing 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had become invariably automatic. 

 Some took 18 days, others even 245 days, and some habits, unsurprisingly, were harder than others to make stick.

 So creating a new habit or replacing an old habit isn't going to be an overnight success. Remember, Rome wasn't built in a day.

 Embracing the truth that it takes time to create an ever-lasting habit will help you to recommit when you fail. 

 Even with such fierce commitment of a 100%, you are going to fall short of the standards you have set yourself.  

 Yep, you'll fall off the wagon. Then what? 

 Pick yourself up again and RECOMMIT! 

 Have you missed a day or two or even a week or two in your habit creation? No problem, pick yourself up again, and RECOMMIT! 

 In, The Slight Edge, the author explains why recommitting (he calls it, a course correction in action) is inevitable. "An Apollo rocket was actually on course only 2 to 3 percent of the time. Which means that for at least 97 percent of the time it took to get from the Earth to the moon it was off course. In a journey of nearly a quarter of a million miles, the vehicle was actually on track for only 7,500 miles. Or to put it another way, for every half-hour the ship was in flight, it was on course for less than one minute. And it reached the moon—safely—and returned to tell the tale."

 The astronauts were 100% committed to getting to the moon. Though they had clarity on their ultimate destination and were fully committed to reaching the moon, they knew that course correction was an inevitable part of their journey.

 In your journey towards being the Forerunner, this course correction will be more frequent. So remember whenever you fall off the wagon, that you need to pick yourself up and recommit by taking action. A lot of action. A lot of times!

 Ready to fall and then rise again? And again and again? 

 Every time you rise again, you are getting stronger. Pick yourself up and recommit, shaytan hates it, but Allah loves it! 

 Remember, falling down is ok, but staying down isn't!