This is an EXCELLENT video Kristan!! I love how you walk us through your videos. You are seriously, in my opinion, one of the best YT channels because you take the time to take us through each process in you EC or PowerSheets. I love it!!
Hearing you say that routines were better for you...that they're planning. I remember seeing puzzles in another of your videos...habits are the puzzle pieces. Building the routines out of habits is putting the puzzles together.
Ok, Kristan, I’m giving power sheets one more try. I tried the 4-5 years ago and I did a lot of the prep work but didn’t implement it all. So I signed up for the goal group and hopefully that will add the accountability I needed. See you there!
This video is exactly what I needed as I’m working through my PowerSheets for the first time! I also need to say I also started to fill out my habits workbook in a separate notebook as well 😂. For my PowerSheets it was the first time I used pen! I honestly have always been stuck on making and tracking habits, but I get overwhelmed. You have convinced me to try and focus on routines instead. Thank you so much for this video! This was so encouraging to me!
I'm glad I'm not alone in trying to "save" the workbooks. Yay for using pen in your PowerSheets! Thank you so much for watching, Jessica, and for your encouraging feedback 🥰
What a great and informative video! Several things you struggle with I could empathize so much with! Especially with doing too much at once and not feeling good enough or what I am doing is not good enough. I have worked a lot on personal development and learned that a core belief like "What I am doing is not good enough / I am not good enough" will drive me to start too many projecta at once. Because my subconscious mind will think that concentrating only at one or two isn't good enough. But then, when I take on too much, I end up with results that are not satisfying which then again feeds into my core belief of not being good enough. So the past two months I worked on two ways to change that core belief: 1. I talk kinder to myself. I celebrate small wins and I collect "evidence" that I am good enough. 2. I created mini habits that are so small that my subconscious mind won't resist against them. These were mini habits like cleaning the table after eating dinner, eating one fruit after lunch. And at first not much is happening, so you gotta be patient. But I can say, just having done that the past two months I see that I increased from less than three portions of fruit and veggies daily to almost four portions. I also crave less sweets after lunch. I haven't changed anything in my diet, but I lost 4 pounds just by doing that over 2 months. My kitchen is cleaner, because after cleaning the table I often do a "bonus" of cleaning something else. It totally has a snowball effect! What I also learned is that the habit has to be so small that you don't feel resistant. I first had the habit of tidying up the kitchen after dinner and that was WAY too much. I didn't do it for 5 days at the start and that's how I knew I had to make it much smaller at first. There are several amazing books about habits out there. Atomic Habits by James Clear is like the bible of habit formation and an amazing guide book. And then Mini Habits by Stephen Guise and Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg are both going into detail why very small habits are the way to go.
I love everything you've written here! Especially the first point of taking kinder to yourself. This really works. I used to be so awful to myself but I've since softened my heart and I can tell it makes a world of difference. I am going to try the mini-habit thing. Reflecting back, I think I did that without realizing it on some of the things I've been successful with in the past. I've read Atomic Habits, but I'm going to add the other titles to my TBR. Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment! 🥰
Awww, thank you! It still catches me off guard when people comment on my handwriting because I had never really though about it. It looks better when I slow down and I'm being really thoughtful about what I'm writing. So that's probably why it looks nice here in my prep work. But you should see my grocery list 🤣🤣😬
I love doing my work with others. Thanks for the video which I had playing while I continued working on my prep work! Going to check out your other videos. Thanks!
This was a great video. I ordered all 3 and they are sitting on my desk. I had wanted to get started on them but I have one Christmas gift that I have to finish first and that is taking every minute of my free time, remind me that hand made gifts take way longer than one anticipates. I was also trying to figure out where to even start and this video gave me some great ideas. I’ll be starting with Habits first, which makes a lot of sense. Looking forward to seeing all this content. I’m like you…always been so worried about making things perfect which often leads to me not even starting something. Or like your snowman quilt…I have a lot of cross stitch or crochet stuff that doesn’t get done because when I sit down to do it I come up with excuses of I only have an hour…that’s not enough time to make a dent in it. Or I don’t want to get everything out and then have to clean it up. So I’m looking forward to letting some of that go. I don’t usually do a word of the year but the word Calmness keeps coming to mind so maybe 2024 is the year to work on being calm, enjoying family and friends more, and embracing quiet time.
Thank you! And I hope you love the goal books. You explained exactly how I feel about the craft stuff. I "only" have an hour to work on it so why bother getting all the stuff out. Bah. And yes, bring on CALM in 2024! Thank you for watching 🥰
I think of habits as WHAT you do and routines as HOW you do them. Why these were made into 2 separate workbooks is beyond me. These topics should be in the same book together.
I like that they're separate because there's a lot of information in each one, though I think there's enough about the other in each one if you only needed to dive deeper into one concept.
I categorize ‘tasks’ as one time items and ‘habits’ as reoccurring items that contribute to my ideal lifestyle, that was the easiest way for me to separate them 😭 All habits need to be in a routine to happen.
Read this if you're having trouble filling out the Cultivated Life Evaluation (CLE): kristankremer.com/easy-guide-to-scoring-goal-areas/
This is an EXCELLENT video Kristan!! I love how you walk us through your videos. You are seriously, in my opinion, one of the best YT channels because you take the time to take us through each process in you EC or PowerSheets. I love it!!
Thank you so much, Jessi!! I really needed that encouragement, so I literally teared up. 🥹🥰
Hearing you say that routines were better for you...that they're planning. I remember seeing puzzles in another of your videos...habits are the puzzle pieces. Building the routines out of habits is putting the puzzles together.
Interesting! Sounds like a fun topic to look into.
Ok, Kristan, I’m giving power sheets one more try. I tried the 4-5 years ago and I did a lot of the prep work but didn’t implement it all. So I signed up for the goal group and hopefully that will add the accountability I needed. See you there!
I hope you love Goal School! I'm really enjoying it so far. I love all the events they do, it really helps to keep my goals at the forefront. 😊
This is a fantastic video!! Thank you so much for sharing all of this and going into such detail...I'll be watching this multiple times for sure!
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching!
Yesss here for the CWM content!! 🥳👏🏻
Yay!! Welcome Emily!! 🩵🥰
This video is exactly what I needed as I’m working through my PowerSheets for the first time! I also need to say I also started to fill out my habits workbook in a separate notebook as well 😂. For my PowerSheets it was the first time I used pen! I honestly have always been stuck on making and tracking habits, but I get overwhelmed. You have convinced me to try and focus on routines instead. Thank you so much for this video! This was so encouraging to me!
I'm glad I'm not alone in trying to "save" the workbooks. Yay for using pen in your PowerSheets! Thank you so much for watching, Jessica, and for your encouraging feedback 🥰
What a great and informative video! Several things you struggle with I could empathize so much with! Especially with doing too much at once and not feeling good enough or what I am doing is not good enough. I have worked a lot on personal development and learned that a core belief like "What I am doing is not good enough / I am not good enough" will drive me to start too many projecta at once. Because my subconscious mind will think that concentrating only at one or two isn't good enough. But then, when I take on too much, I end up with results that are not satisfying which then again feeds into my core belief of not being good enough.
So the past two months I worked on two ways to change that core belief:
1. I talk kinder to myself. I celebrate small wins and I collect "evidence" that I am good enough.
2. I created mini habits that are so small that my subconscious mind won't resist against them. These were mini habits like cleaning the table after eating dinner, eating one fruit after lunch. And at first not much is happening, so you gotta be patient. But I can say, just having done that the past two months I see that I increased from less than three portions of fruit and veggies daily to almost four portions. I also crave less sweets after lunch. I haven't changed anything in my diet, but I lost 4 pounds just by doing that over 2 months. My kitchen is cleaner, because after cleaning the table I often do a "bonus" of cleaning something else. It totally has a snowball effect!
What I also learned is that the habit has to be so small that you don't feel resistant. I first had the habit of tidying up the kitchen after dinner and that was WAY too much. I didn't do it for 5 days at the start and that's how I knew I had to make it much smaller at first.
There are several amazing books about habits out there. Atomic Habits by James Clear is like the bible of habit formation and an amazing guide book. And then Mini Habits by Stephen Guise and Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg are both going into detail why very small habits are the way to go.
I love everything you've written here! Especially the first point of taking kinder to yourself. This really works. I used to be so awful to myself but I've since softened my heart and I can tell it makes a world of difference. I am going to try the mini-habit thing. Reflecting back, I think I did that without realizing it on some of the things I've been successful with in the past. I've read Atomic Habits, but I'm going to add the other titles to my TBR. Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment! 🥰
Can you do a video about your meal plan. I really struggle with that and end up buying fast food because I work outside the house and get home late.
Can we talk about your handwriting though?! Teach me your ways 😂😍😍😍
Awww, thank you! It still catches me off guard when people comment on my handwriting because I had never really though about it. It looks better when I slow down and I'm being really thoughtful about what I'm writing. So that's probably why it looks nice here in my prep work. But you should see my grocery list 🤣🤣😬
I love doing my work with others. Thanks for the video which I had playing while I continued working on my prep work! Going to check out your other videos. Thanks!
Yay! I love the idea that we were "co-working". Thank you so much for watching, Christy!
Love the video ❤ Have a Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you! You too! 🎅
Acts of Service is how I show love too.
It just fills my heart! 🩵🥰
This was a great video. I ordered all 3 and they are sitting on my desk. I had wanted to get started on them but I have one Christmas gift that I have to finish first and that is taking every minute of my free time, remind me that hand made gifts take way longer than one anticipates. I was also trying to figure out where to even start and this video gave me some great ideas. I’ll be starting with Habits first, which makes a lot of sense. Looking forward to seeing all this content. I’m like you…always been so worried about making things perfect which often leads to me not even starting something. Or like your snowman quilt…I have a lot of cross stitch or crochet stuff that doesn’t get done because when I sit down to do it I come up with excuses of I only have an hour…that’s not enough time to make a dent in it. Or I don’t want to get everything out and then have to clean it up. So I’m looking forward to letting some of that go. I don’t usually do a word of the year but the word Calmness keeps coming to mind so maybe 2024 is the year to work on being calm, enjoying family and friends more, and embracing quiet time.
Thank you! And I hope you love the goal books. You explained exactly how I feel about the craft stuff. I "only" have an hour to work on it so why bother getting all the stuff out. Bah. And yes, bring on CALM in 2024! Thank you for watching 🥰
I think of habits as WHAT you do and routines as HOW you do them. Why these were made into 2 separate workbooks is beyond me. These topics should be in the same book together.
I like that they're separate because there's a lot of information in each one, though I think there's enough about the other in each one if you only needed to dive deeper into one concept.
I categorize ‘tasks’ as one time items and ‘habits’ as reoccurring items that contribute to my ideal lifestyle, that was the easiest way for me to separate them 😭 All habits need to be in a routine to happen.
Great distinction! And I like the bit about needing to be in a routine. I need to look back over my habits with that in mind. Thank you for watching!
Can you do a video about your meal plan. I really struggle with that and end up buying fast food because I work outside the house and get home late.