Being Green Has Never Been Easier: Challenge your Beliefs About What’s Possible and Be Open to Changing Them «

Being Green Has Never Been Easier: Challenge your Beliefs About What’s Possible and Be Open to Changing Them

Building on Steps 1 & 2 from my last post, here are two more steps you can take right away to help you make progress sooner rather than later:

Challenge your Beliefs About What’s Possible and Be Open to Changing Them

This is where you have to go a little deeper with yourself to understand why you do something in spite of your awareness that doing it may not be the best thing for you or others.

It’s important not to judge or blame yourself or others, while doing this. There may be many legitimate reasons for engaging in a behavior or habit – ranging from not knowing it was a problem to not having the resources or knowledge to change it. In some cases it could be laziness or apathy, or just a bad habit that’s hard to break.

Remember that everything you do is a choice. Even not doing something is a choice. In any given situation you can think and choose differently. So what are some of your limiting beliefs that you can challenge right now to help you take action towards positive and meaningful change?

Don’t make decisions based on assumptions. Get the facts first so you understand the real impact of doing your chosen steps and affirm that it’s possible.

Set a Realistic Time-frame for Completing Action Items and Reward Your Self for Doing It

Give yourself a realistic deadline to accomplish this and be practical. If your deadline is too far out into the future then you won’t be motivated to do it sooner and might lose momentum early in the process. If your deadline is too soon then you might lose motivation if you can’t accomplish it fast enough.

Next to each item write down a deadline for completing it and how you will reward yourself for accomplishing it. When you’ve completed the top 3-5 items, move down the list and start on the next 3-5 items. As you get better at this and learn more about being green you may want to re-visit and re-prioritize the list you created in Steps 1 & 2.