Recency is the bedrock for remembering – that which is recent, is easiest to remember.
Amit Sood’s uplifting post, Resilient Option, got me to thinking. He used the word ‘recency’ in teaching his lesson aimed at building personal resilience. In his Day 24 insight for Week 4, he reminds listeners that trees don’t grow deep roots during the storm.
We must concentrate on building ourselves up each day – not just when we might need the results.
He cited studies proving that students who employed daily reminders of personal values, reflected honesty in their behaviors better than a group of students who completed an intensive course on integrity a few months ago.
To start a daily habit of building positivity and resilience, he recommended journaling about three core values in our personal and professional lives. Brilliant! This concept ties into my post for June 20, 2023, (<click), in which I introduce the concept of reading a personal intention statement at the start of each day.
This daily practice has been a game changer for me – augmenting every good mindset I give myself. Maybe some of the ideas in my intention statement are not 100% fulfilled, but I BELIEVE them all, and I see how each intention is coming into focus more and more.
Maybe we have not made up with someone over a recent disagreement; but saying, “I seek peace with everyone I am blessed to meet,” is just the message needed to move us toward harmony with other people.
Our mind believes what we tell it!
Perhaps we struggle with eating food that is not healthful, but a daily reminder that, “I am grateful for my life and health. I am learning how to honor my body by eating the kind of food that helps it,” will nudge us toward food that gets us to that goal.
To assist you in either journaling about your core values or in creating that daily reminder through a spoken intention, we are including a handy download of Core Values that can be the springboard for your self-nourishing message.
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In health –
Deidre
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Good sound advice…Consistency and perseverance and now “recency” all part of my daily routine.
Thanks. I’m finding that I need to keep certain ideas in the forefront of my mind’s experience to keep them in practice – and that ties into the new post for today. I am allowing certain issues I need to resolve when returning home from Kona to churn – I literally got up in the middle of the night to pray and meditate about releasing them, again, and to shower the issue with pillows of soft love. I heard a gentle Hawaiian rain mist start to fall and resolved to keep my thoughts as gentle and reviving as that welcomed moisture.