Your Life Needs a Reset — 7 Days That Can Change Everything

So, You are Fed up with Your Current Life and Your Current Habits.

You wish to improve yourself because you know that you have the potential and you have the capability to grow.

But you just don’t know how to start,

• How to leave your bad habits, how to go about it?
• What should be the blueprints?
• What step should I take?

In this story, I am going to guide you on how to reset your life in just seven days. And this is not clickbait, because this is something even I am dealing with.

I am also fed up with my current lifestyle and current bad habits. And I wish to improve myself.

So this is basically a very personal video that I designed for myself, and I thought that I would share it with you guys as well.

So basically, we will have to do some activity every day. And since we have fewer days, we have to just buckle up and start.

Day 01: Analyse the Current Situation

I would want to analyze my current situation and what exactly the problem is.

How many habits are getting spoiled? Why is it getting worse? And what can I do for them?

And all this thinking is like this, you cannot think like this while sitting in one place and looking out of the window at such views.

If you are overthinking, then it does not count as progress. You have to take action.

And for that, I would recommend that you sit in a place where there is no distraction.

Just come up with a notebook and a pen and start making columns as I am saying.

So we have to create three columns first, in which we will list down the problems. Second, we will ask ourselves why they exist. And the third is what I can do to solve this problem.

And right now, list down all the problems you have in your life. Like in my case, my problem is that I am not able to wake up early in the morning.

I keep looking at my phone for a long time at night. I am not able to pay attention to my diet, unable to include protein.

I am missing my workouts and am not as consistent in my content creation. Now this is the second column, in which I am asking myself why they exist.

In this, I have to be very particular and just spend some time thinking where exactly the issue is coming from.

And in my case, as far as I have noticed, all the problems are occurring due to looking at the phone for a long time at night.

The issue is that I look at my phone for a long time at night, due to which, even if I am getting sleep, I am not able to sleep, and I sleep for a long time.

And because of sleeping for a long time, I wake up late in the morning. I am waking up at 11–12 o’clock.

Which means my breakfast got cancelled. I skipped a meal. Now, the problem after missing a meal is that I don’t like going to the gym in the evening. I go to the gym only in the morning.

Now I missed my morning gym too. And because I am waking up late and not eating my meals properly, because of this, I feel very lazy, and I am not able to concentrate actively on my content.

Now my problem is that I sleep after looking at my phone at night. And because of this, my bad habits are piling up, and multiple bad habits are being created.

So if I break this down, then why am I not able to sleep early at night, and why do I prefer to look at my phone?

Now what happens is that I spend most of my time at home. I mostly work from home.

And because of this, even if I don’t go to the gym and don’t do any workout, I don’t feel tired.

Because I don’t think you feel so tired after doing mental work unless you have done some physical work.

And because I am not getting tired, I am not able to sleep at night.

I feel like a fresh idea at 12:00 at night, which means I feel like, oh, I’m high on coffee at 12:00 at night. I would rather not have drunk coffee.

And because I feel so active at night, I do write my thoughts, etc., but still, I feel that I should work hard at night.

Watch movies or watch YouTube videos. In the name of research, I waste a lot of my time watching useless content.

Now our third column is about what I can do to solve this problem.

The straightforward answer to this is that I should not check my phone at night, basically.

And if I feel that my body has become so used to this cycle, then I should focus on improving my cycle.

And I should basically focus on waking up early. And once you have clarity, once you have found the solution, then our next step would be to select two major problems that are very different to tackle.

So in my case, there are two major problems due to which multiple bad habits are being created.

First, I sleep with my phone at night, and second, I wake up late in the morning.

So I have to tackle both these issues first, so that going forward, everything gets solved back-to-back.

Man follows his systems more than his habits. And over time, by accumulating these bad habits, I have created such a bad system for myself because I did not do it like this before.

Earlier, I used to wake up very early. So this is all the work we have to do on Day One.

Day 02: Commit For The Next 7 Days

On day one, when you get a complete analysis of your problems, and you also know what you have to work on, then on day two, we have to commit ourselves to at least for a week that we will be solving those problems.

So in my case, basically, I have to commit to two things. The first thing is that I do not want to bring my phone to bed after 11:00 pm.

Basically, switch off your phone and keep it in your hall. And the second thing is that I have to wake up at least at 8:00 AM or 9:00 AM in the morning.

Even at 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM, you may feel that this is too late. But if you want to change your habit, you cannot take a big step immediately.

You have to improve your bad habits gradually. So if I wake up at 11:00 AM from the lattes, then a target of 8:00 AM or 9:00 AM is well enough for me. It is doable.

So likewise, you will do the same. You will be able to do only those things that are doable for you.

Otherwise, it will be very difficult for you to remain consistent for even two days, let alone seven days.

And because this is the day to commit, you will be super pumped up to do these things because you have committed yourself.

And seven days is such a small number that it is easy for you to actually complete the task.

So, in this, I would suggest that you can also add two new habits. If I am waking up at 8:00 AM or 9:00 AM in the morning anyway, then I can also go to the gym in the morning.

And if you have gone to the gym, then you can also take some protein rich diet for breakfast.

Day 03: Clean Your Surroundings

We will be focusing on cleaning our surroundings so that we can make space for adding new things in our lives.

See, I personally believe a lot in energies. And I feel that if you want to bring positive energies or any change within yourself, then it is very important to first remove the negativity so that space is created to add that new thing to your life.

So if you want to remove bad habits from within yourself and create some new habits, then you will have to make space for them.

And when we wish to improve or when we want to grow, when we want to succeed in our life, we are so badly chasing the numbers, chasing the rewards, but we forget that getting or not getting success is not always in our hands.

So basically, you should focus on the things that are in your control. And cleaning your surroundings and at least making space for adding new things is in your control.

And by cleaning your surroundings, I am not saying that you should start sweeping and mopping.

I am telling you that whatever things are draining your energy, remove them from your life.

So, for this, we will again take a notebook and a pen and make a tracker for ourselves.

In this, we will mention time, activity, energy level, and how we are feeling.

Basically, we just need a rough idea as to where I am spending most of my time throughout the day and whether I am feeling positive or negative after spending time at that place.

So if I track my time and tell you, which is currently very useless, if you look at it, I am spending at least 7 hours a day using the phone, and I don’t feel anything special. Even after that, I am feeling negative.

And sometimes the activities I do, like walking, spending time with nature, meditating, eating good food, or talking to friends, make me feel really good.

So when I see this tracker in front of me, my energy levels out of 10 are always above eight after doing all these things, then basically if I want to improve my life, then I should add more of these things.

And again, when you yourself write these things in front of you on your tracker, then you will yourself understand, brother, what am I doing in my life?

Day 04: Choose a Micro Goal

Why am I wasting my time on social media? Then comes day four, in which we now have to choose a micro goal for ourselves, which can get us closer to our actual goal.

Of course, meditation, gratitude, drinking more water, maintaining a good diet, and working out are good things, but these do not make your career.

So on Day Four, we have to make a chart in order to get closer to our goals and something that is related to our career.

In this, we will create a very simple tracker in which we will mention the day. We will mention the action and whether we have taken that action or not.

Now I will just give you an example of how to fill this tracker. First, we have to set a micro goal for ourselves.

So in my case, the micro goal would be that I have to post at least two stories in a week.

Now I have to think about how to think about those two stories and how to start writing.

So if I’ve committed myself to seven days, I’ll put Day One here and write the action, writing a script for the reel.

And then I will write whether the action is done or not, yes or no. Now this was all for day four, and now comes day five.

Day 05: Audit Your Circle

On Day Five, we have to audit our circle. Because whenever you want to improve yourself, the first thing that drains you is the people around you.

And when I’m talking about circles, it’s not just about people, it’s also about the things and the places and the situations that are also draining your energy.

So basically, on this day, we will also create a tracker in which we will mention two columns: Things That Uplift Me & Things That Drain Me.

And you can maintain this tracker for life, so that whenever such a situation arises in your life or any such person comes who uplifts you, or there is some place where you feel very good after going there, you will put all these things in Uplifts Me.

And any such place or any such person, any such situation, any thing that drains you, you will fill that thing in that column.

And then you have to apply a very simple logic. Whatever things uplift you, you have to try to do them as much as possible. And whatever drains you, you got it right.

And by the way, it is not that the commitments you have made on Day Five or the tracker you have created, you have to fill them only on Day Five.

This is like a long-term process. You have to keep doing this until you are satisfied that, yes, brother, now I have improved. Consistency is the key.

If you are not able to stay consistent, if you are not able to stay true to your commitment, then your self-worth and confidence also get adversely affected.

Day 06: Resetting Your Identity

First of all, you have to ask yourself what type of identity you want to create for yourself.

And what I mean by identity is that there is a way in which you say, you know, I want to be healthy, so I have to exercise.

You basically force yourself to do that thing. But when you create an identity in your mind that I am a person who wants to be healthy or likes to be healthy, or I just see myself as a healthy person, then it will become very easy for you to do those exercises, follow the diet, follow a good lifestyle.

And again, to reset our identity, we will have to make three columns. The first one would be the identity area, then the old version, and then the reset version, basically the past you and the future you.

So in the identity area, we will mention the categories of all these things, like our habits, mindset, emotions, time, or energy, in a broader category.

Then we will mention how the old version of yours responds to these things. For example, if I have a habit, it is that I skip workouts, I sleep late, I do not eat food on time, and I eat extra.

And how do I want to change this, which means my reset version or my future view, how do I see myself, a person who wakes up early, does meditation, does Yoga, pays attention to his food, works on his goals with full concentration.

Basically, I imagine such a person for myself. So you basically have to fill all these things in this tracker.

And it is very strange for you to write things down. How many times have I told you in this story that unless you write things down, they will not settle in your mind, and you will not get clarity?

Most of the times, we have the solutions to all our problems. We do not want to just sit and reflect on them. We do not want to face our fears.

But doing something like this and filling out a tracker like this will really help you a lot to actually understand who you are as a person and what you can do to improve yourself.

Day 07: Building Systems

You can do anything by committing for six or seven days. You will also reward yourself for that thing.

What is the advantage if you are doing it for only 7 days? You have to follow it basically as a lifestyle. You have to make that thing a routine.

So that will be possible only when you create systems for those things. What I mean by creating a system is that you make it very easy to incorporate that thing into your lifestyle.

As if brushing is done. You know that when I wake up in the morning, I have to brush my teeth.

You have to drink tea or whatever your routine is, basically, or you have to take a bath. So you have created systems for these things.

Because if you have to motivate yourself every time to wake up in the morning, you have to motivate yourself to go to the gym, then motivation dies really quickly.

When your energy level is very high, you can motivate yourself.

But when you do not feel like it, even on lazy days, if you can stay consistent, it will only be through building systems.

So, for this also, there is a very easy three-column tracker in which, first of all, we will mention habits. Second would be did I maintain this, a simple yes or no, and then notes.

This is more like a track, and this gives you a direction to actually build systems.

This tracker is very simple, but let me just give you an example of how you can fill this out.

So, in the habit column, basically waking up early would be my habit. And did I maintain this is a simple yes and no?

And then we can add notes for it, that if it did not happen, then why did it not happen, basically.

And if you follow this consistently for seven days, I bet you that your life will be completely changed.

In just seven days, you will see so many improvements in yourself that you will be shocked that I have achieved so much in such a short time.

If you have read this story till the end, I know how important it is for you to improve yourself.

How badly do you want to do this? So my recommendation would be, please stop procrastinating.

Seven days is a very short period of time. Take the challenge once for seven days.

And tell me in the comments after seven days whether you remained consistent in this thing or not.