Should We Fix Every Habit One by One?

Hello, how are you? I hope you're doing well. For a long time, I was thinking about what to write. My goal was to share some experiences that I found useful in my own life. While pondering what to write, I decided to focus on the method of establishing order through habits that I have been struggling with lately. Because when trying to organize my life, the hardest things to break free from were always habits.

Without even realizing it, I had made laziness a habit. For example, I complained about living without a plan, yet unknowingly spent hours sitting in the same place doing nothing. This led me to a state of stagnation that, without my awareness, even weakened my blood circulation. Of course, one could see spending hours thinking as an advantage. But is it really? Maybe you are more successful in this regard than I am, but for me, this situation started to feel like a complete disaster warning.

While life is shaped around basic needs, planning and implementing an organization for success should not be this difficult. After all, my goal is to meet a fundamental need. Yes, I intentionally wrote "ONE" in capital letters. Because, thanks to a sudden burst of divine inspiration, I finally realized where I was going wrong.

My first mistake was thinking that the laziness that had settled in over a long period could be instantly corrected by arranging my entire life in one sitting. It takes time. After all, didn’t it also take time for me to become completely inactive? This realization hit me hard. My empty moments started filling up with unproductive activities due to my habitual idleness. The worst side effect was that it began to pull in my core responsibilities, like my job.

At that very moment, I became aware of the situation and made a decision to change. However, attempting a radical transformation all at once prevented me from succeeding. Because just as I had become lazy step by step, I needed to get rid of it step by step as well. Unless a new habit is developed consistently, I couldn’t truly say I had overcome the bad one.

For example, I tried to follow a new routine that I had never practiced before for two days. But by the third day, I no longer had the energy to sustain it. As a result, I found myself back at square one. When I shared this with a friend, they said, "If you only managed to get back to where you started, then you’re still doing fine." Unfortunately, that was true—things could have gotten even worse. Fortunately, I was able to stop at that point instead of regressing further.

This experience taught me a crucial lesson. If I want to correct something in my life, I need to establish a solid foundation and progress step by step. Instead of trying to fix everything at once, I should prioritize and tackle each issue one at a time. For example, rather than thinking, "I am lazy, how do I fix it?" I should identify the factors that contribute to my laziness, such as social media, lack of planning, and wasting my free time, and work on each individually. I should replace them with productive alternatives. Only in this way can I achieve sustainable progress.

I hope that after reading this, you have understood that change should not be rushed, but at the same time, should not be endlessly postponed either. Wishing you all a day where you take your first step towards being organized—ONE step at a time!