Struggling to level Up? 3 easy systems that stick
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Levelling Up means working on yourself. Sometimes this is really hard. You’ve to discover what works for you or not. That means even break bad habits and create new habits that work.
Creating new habits and stick to them gives me a lot of frustration resulting in beating me up. To help you out, not doing the same things as I do. I’ll share what works for me, and you could benefit from it as well.
Instead of creating habits. I create strategic systems that stick yet benefit my lifestyle. Eventually, these systems become habits or routines.
Why I create systems instead of habits or routines
Some things are rooted in me, and some don’t. My life is changing. I start implementing more self-love in my life again.
This time more things are important for me than years before. To get through this whole levelling up journey, I have to change and integrate new habits to get where I want to be.
I start reading and listen to books, podcasts on this topic. My first pick was Atomic Habits. To make my levelling journey “easy”, I start implementing what I’ve read or listened to.
Planning was the first thing I tried to do. I’ve never planned things out for a whole week. Let’s stand for a whole month. As they said, you have to write it down or plan this on your calendar, so you’ll stick to it.
I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t work for me. Actually, it stresses me out. So I quit that whole planning thing. After all, learning something is to benefit from it.
Next! The To-do list, I skip this out of my list. The dopamine effect where Simon Sinek is talking about. Didn’t get any of it. Instead, I beat myself up if I don’t finish everything on my list. I don’t of you recognise this.
Even when I manage to reduce the task on my list.
The self-talk in my head keeps ongoing. Not in a positive way.
For me levelling up means working on different things in my life.
Becoming feminine, a woman of value and more self-love. Levelling up means also being aware of things that don’t work for you or aren’t beneficial in any means.
Skipping the things that don’t work and doing more of the things that work.
And the thing that sticks for me still is working with systems instead of habits.
While I am working on myself, I discover that I am more of a strategic person.
This makes a huge difference in how I approach things now. Strategise and make things more effective and efficient that is more of my jam. Mabey, you are a strategic person without even knowing it.
The benefits of easy systems that stick
Reading the book about the Feminine Archetypes. Athena, the Greek Goddess, knowing for her strategic practically and great results.
Related post: How to Use The 7 Feminine Archetypes discover the secrets
It was such an eye-opener. Recognising crucial things about the feminine archetypes helps me to approach things differently.
When things don’t work for you and your lifestyle, you have to change this. Feminine, high-value women work on this through trial and error to find an easy system that works.
Instead of learning habits, I created systems.
Benefit of this is that I don’t have to write it down.
If you are a visual person, you just want to see things rather than writing them down.
This doesn’t mean that you never have to schedule things. I just want to list an overwhelming bunch of tasks. Resulting in procrastinating on the things that are so important to do.
Using systems wouldn’t work for everything.
But why not eliminate things that aren’t beneficial for you. A clear up mind makes room for creative idea’s.
To make my levelling up journey easy, I have created systems that stick in these next area’s.
1. Easy system for my wardrobe
Fashion and styling my clothes is my whole thing. The lady wants to look good, but this was also my bottleneck.
Do you recognise this! Each morning standing in front of your closet and decided what to wear that day to work? So frustrating.
Levelling up means how you show up says something about your self-worth.
I pick a day to iron or steam the clothes I want to wear for that week to eliminate this. After that, create sets or pieces of clothes, socks, shoes etc., to wear for the whole week.
Hanging this on a separate rack to only stick on the pieces I have on that clothing rack. An easy system that sticks.
At 3.30 A.M, I just have to pick the pieces for each day. This easy system saves me a lot of time. Result in less stress. This I have more time for other things in the morning, like meditating.
2. Easy system for Exercising
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Exercising also belongs in your levelling up journey. I’ve to admit, knowing how important this is, I have done a lot to make this more fun.
Finding a system that sticks makes exercising so easy. For me gain weight is my goal. At least four times a week, working out is a priority.
As I do for my work clothes! Same thing counts for my gym clothes.
Creating four sets and strategically putting this at work my clothes.
This reminds me to exercise four times a week. Which day I’ll do this doesn’t matter.
To make it more fun, I’ve created several workout playlists that will help me out.
Exercising at home saves me a lot of time. I can manage it between what I have to do that way. If you exercise from this system could work for you or even when you’re going to the gym. I can’t tell about that. Try this out. Maybe this system will make things easy for your lifestyle.
3. Easy system for Beauty & Selflove
Caring for yourself on the outside makes you eventually feel better about yourself. But you have to do it. To level up, you have to take some time to pamper once in a while. It depends on your lifestyle.
To make this easy, a system that sticks.
I put my beauty products strategically in my bathroom, so I can’t avoid it to do.
Once a week, doing a pedicure and manicure is a must. Writing it down on a random day in the week is a reminder that I have to do it that week. The most important is that I visualise this.
To make it easy. I am creating bags with all the stuff that is related to that treatment. Doing my nails! I’ve got a bag for that, with my nail polishes, effervescent tablets, feet scrubs etc.
Doing my hair. I storage everything related to my hair pampering day in a storage box.
Setting a day to do, for example, doing my hair. Just grabbing the box and put this in my bathroom sink.
It reminds me visually that I have to do this.
Such an easy system, doing this for almost a year.
BONUS! easy system for tidying and cleaning your house
Cleaning and tidying up your house says something about you. But it also does something mentally with you. From my experience, if my house is a mess. Focussing on the important things is hard for me.
Even my body isn’t happy at all. And it is sending me clear messages.
If you live by yourself, it is easy to keep your strict cleaning and tidying system.
Living with someone else makes it a lot harder when the person doesn’t cover the same values for a clean house. Bottom line is struggling with your inner self.
Forcing someone doesn’t work.
But you also want to be a cleaner, but you either want a messy house.
An easy system that saves me a lot of time and makes things efficiently is buying a robot vacuum cleaner. As it walks through my house, saves me time to do other things in the house.
Once a week, I vacuum corners with my handheld cleaner where the robot couldn’t catch the dirt. Just within seconds, the house is clean.
Next, system is collecting stuff that is all over the place and putting this in a box. Twice a week, I put it where it belongs. This makes it much easier to keep up with a clean house. Trust me. It will save you a lot of time.
Conclusion
Reading or listing to books or podcasts will bring you creative idea’s. Some will work, and some don’t. Is writing down a to-do list isn’t working for you? Stop that and find some other solutions.
For me reading about the feminine archetypes give me the creative idea to work with systems.
By visualising my systems, I know what to do for that day, week or even month. Eventually, a system is also a habit or routine.
The solution you find and sticks. It will help you in the long run where you want to be.
Does this system sound good to you? Will you give it a try if your habits don’t stick.