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4 Small Habit Shifts in 2024 For Me
Small shifts, big benefits
My approach to 2024 is simple: spend more time adjusting the balance.
You see, most of my life I have subscribed to the status quo. Everything from my career to college to how I structured my days I looked left and right and took notes.
In 2023, I started untangling and unsubscribing from the norm. I bought a house that was technically a step back, I went part-time at work, I actively avoided promotions, I stopped doing what everyone else was doing and started listening to myself.
And it was the most successful year of my life. Both financially and mentally. I have more mental clarity today on what I want my life to look like than ever before.
And it’s helped me start to think of 2024. And these are the contrary habits I’m building in 2024.
1. Idle time
For the longest time, I’ve indulged in the notion of being action-led. To not waste time thinking about a thing. To just do the thing. I’ve always thought that people waste far too much time thinking.
Thomas Jefferson once said: “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
