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How Small Commitments Lead to Bigger Accomplishments | Habits of A Goddess
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Welcome back to the Habits of a Goddess Podcast. A podcast filled with self love, self care and spiritual affirmations. My mission for whoever is listening to this podcast is that you find ways to empower yourself, attract the life that you desire and feel supported. On this self love journey, I have experienced a new way of opening up to the endless possibilities of healing and growing through sharing my voice. I'm your host Jasmine Rascoe and today's episode we will be talking about how small commitments lead to bigger accomplishments. Also, if you're enjoying the podcast, don't forget to give Habits of Agada's podcast a five star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. I love reading the reviews you guys leave. It means the world to me to see how truly the podcast has made a positive impact in your life and when you leave a review apps other goddesses discover the podcast too. So story time. I had an old college girlfriend message me 10 years ago. She messaged me one day and she started asking me a lot of questions. I can tell she really wanted to catch up. But she wasn't sure if I was open to just chatting with her because it was more of, like, in the DMs. She didn't really have my personal self. We lost touch with each other. She had been following me for a few years, and I no longer lived in the same town that we met. So we haven't seen each other and really haven't chatted and talked for a very long time. So it was kind of like a cold reach when she reached out. And I remember she asking me this question. She asked me, what big change did you do? Like, what did you do? What is that one thing that you did that changed your life? Because I see a change in you, and I want that for myself. Like, I want to change, but I don't know where to start. And at the time, I never really saw myself how maybe she saw me. I was just simply living my life. I chose to, like, relocate and move and, you know, just create the life that I have now. But it took time creating that, and I had no clue how to do it. In the beginning, I didn't have a full plan. I just simply started. So she told me in confidence that she was ready for a change, and she had some rough patches, and she was really, really looking forward to just finding a different route in life. She seemed defeated, and she was wondering what she can do to start the journey of just leveling up, glowing up, and creating a better life for herself and the town that she grew up in. She didn't really have a lot of examples of someone successful. And I can see and relate to that totally, 100%. I didn't see the version of me today, like the Tundre went to college, the town that I grew up in. I didn't really see a lot of people doing what I'm doing now. And it's. Sometimes it's hard to envision it for yourself if you haven't seen it being done, but it is so possible. So she wasn't the only person that messaged me over the years like that. I would get hundreds of emails from women who were either looking to start a business or relocate or. Or wanted advice on how to buy a home or how to start their spiritual journey or how to lose weight or just how to become confident and so on. Like, these were the concerns that women would reach out to me and ask me for advice. Now, this was way before Habits of a Goddess podcast. Just to put things in perspective, I was just simply sharing my life online. I would share, like, me working out in the mornings. I would share whenever I would go to therapy because I was like, doing my own inner work. I would share, you know, my home buying process. I remember that whole situation. It was like, it was a lot I would share when I was learning how to invest money and how to save money and, you know, I would share all that stuff online. And so I had women that were following me and I didn't really know or realize that I was actually making a. A mark in their life or impact and, you know, inspiring them. But later on in life, I would get messages just like the girlfriend I had in college. And so at the time, I would give advice freely and I would even create, like, YouTube videos until one day someone asked me, did I offer life coaching sessions? And I never thought of that. I never really saw myself at that time. I'm talking years, years, years ago. I never saw myself at that time really doing that. But I knew I had a gift because people would come to me, even people who I didn't even know in person, they would come to me for advice. Even people in, you know, in real life, like, I can be out shopping and, you know, people would ask me, like, what do you think of this? Like, it could be fashion advice. So I never thought of charging, but I knew people would respect my time and they wanted to invest and they saw that as an investment. And after all, you should get paid for your time. You should get paid for your knowledge, your. Your wisdom. So I started doing just that. And I built up a small clientele just off of social media alone and word of mouth. And I started, you know, coaching women and, you know, given advice on, you know, whatever it is that they would come to me about. And so to go back to the old college classmate, when she asked me what was the one big thing I did at that time, I could not give her a solid answer because it wasn't one thing. It wasn't one big thing. And I felt like a lot of times when I would get DMs, a lot of women that were really in desperate need, like, really needed to change, like something could be maybe going on really, you know, awful in their life and they're looking for a way out, and I was not the solution. So I could not, like, lead them and say, hey, do this one thing and your life is going to be like a total 360. I had to tell them, like, hey, it's not one big thing. It's small daily habits. It's small daily habits that I do that leads up to bigger accomplishments in my life that leads up to bigger success. So if you're looking at me and you're thinking, wow, how does she do it? Like, how does she stay consistent online? Or how does she stay consistent with her podcast? Or how does she stay consistent with, you know, her health? Like just eating right and making better food choices and, you know, working out? Like, how does she stay consistent working out in the mornings? Like, these are questions and thoughts that I know. Like, I have been getting, you know, since I've been on social media. There is no one thing that is going to take you and change your life. There's not one thing. It is a combination of everything. So I remember this quote that I heard in church one day. How you do anything is how you do everything. So how you do anything is how you do everything. So when you wake up in the morning, how does your morning start? What small habits are you creating in the morning for yourself? Are you reading? Are you meditating? Are you taking your vitamins? Are you drinking your water? Are you consuming content on TikTok? Are you online scrolling? What is your morning routine look like? Like, are you getting straight out of bed and going straight to work? Or are you taking extra 10, 20 minutes of self care for yourself before you start your day? Like, what does your morning look like? What are the small habits that you're creating for yourself on a daily basis? So anytime you're looking to start your journey of change and you're like, I'm ready, I'm ready to change my job. You're like, I, I love the job but I know I'm ready for more. Or you could be like, I hate this job, I hate my boss. I'm ready for more. Okay, what small changes can you make to improve and create a open communication to the universe and say, hey, I'm ready for change. I'm ready to attract a better job or a higher paying job, or I'm ready to relocate to a whole different part of town or a new city, new state. I'm ready for that. These are changes that takes time. It doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen in a quick span, it doesn't happen at a snap of your finger. You have to create small habits and when you create a vision for your life, I always talk about vision boards that the other day I was cleaning up my closet and I share this on a few episodes that I was doing a huge major closet clean out. I found a old journal from like 2021 or 2020. Maybe an old journal that was given to me by one of the brands that I work with. They sent me like at the end of the year. It was like a, like a Christmas basket gift or whatever. And I kept the journal and I used it for a. I completely forgot about it. But I started reading the journal and the goals that I wrote down for 2021, because I. The journal was titled, it was the 20, the year of 2020. But like, the goals were for 2021. So this journal is almost five years old. And the goals I had set for myself. I'm laughing because at one point those goals were big for me. They were big. And looking back, that didn't happen overnight. It actually happened over a four year span. Now, this is not to scare you away from like starting the journey and you're comparing yourself to someone who has been doing this for four or five years, or 10 years, or even a year. At the end of the day, you have to start where you're at. Start where you're at and build up on it. Build the momentum towards the things that you want to change in your life. If one of your goals is to lose weight, okay, start small increments. Set a goal for yourself. Like each week. Maybe your goal is to lose five pounds each week. So a pound a day, Monday through Friday, and then on the weekends you have your cheat days. Or you can break it down within seven days. You know, set within seven days, you lose five pounds. That's just an example. Or your goal could be for the new year. I would love to save X amount of dollars each out of each paycheck. You have to start small. You have to start somewhere. So build up on it. Let the momentum bring you towards the bigger accomplishments and goals that you have for yourself.
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And when you're working towards it every day in small increments, that's when the bigger goals become accomplished. Because those small increments adds up. It's like the 1% rule. Like every day, move that needle 1% and it adds up. It's. It's like the compound effect, it adds up your, your daily deposits that you do for you. It's making the picture bigger. And the compliments and goals that you have for yourself, it is so much bigger than what you see right now. But you have to start. Not only that, you have to start and work towards it every day. You have to stay positive. When you're staying positive and you're saying, yes, I'm open to change, I'm open to creating a better reality for myself. I'm open to attracting better for myself. I'm open to this new journey, this new business venture or relocating or starting my spiritual journey, or I'm open to a new relationship, like every day. Stay positive and keep that in the forefront of your head. And when you're working towards it, you'll start to see changes in your life happen. I highly recommend finding successful people online that you can look up to and absorb. Like, you don't have to copy them like blueprint, but you can kind of take small little nuggets from them and see how they move and operate. Of course you're not going to know how everyone accumulates success and achieve great goals in their life, but successful people leave clues. And that's one thing I do know, is that when you're following and surrounding yourself around successful people, you have no other choice but to become successful. So those small commitments that you make, they lead up to bigger accomplishments. The promises that you keep to yourself is rewarding. When you believe in yourself and you stay positive. That is such a, that's a beautiful way to build confidence and self esteem and just build a very like, healthy relationship around the commitments that you're making to yourself. And one thing I do know and realize is that when you make room to grow, also make room to celebrate your small wins. Because as you're growing and you're learning and evolving, you are going to, you're going to change. And the people around you may change or they may grow and evolve with you. So if you've been following me and you've been listening to the podcast and you've been creating, you know, the podcast as part of your small habits to accomplish bigger goals that you have for yourself. You, you are on that path. You are accomplishing the bigger picture by creating the daily habits that you set for yourself. So celebrate your small wins and just know like everyone starts at zero and every single day work towards building and creating the life that you desire. Another story I have for you guys is that I used to hate reading. This is a shocker. Probably for some people. Because I know you're probably thinking, well, you recommend all these amazing personal development books, self help books. And yes, I've read hundreds of books. But there was a point in my life, a period in my life where I used to hate reading. Like I could not read a book without falling asleep. I would get so bored and I just couldn't keep my eyes open. And I remember I had this mentor and she used to tell me like, hey, you should read one book a month, that's your goal. And I used to try to read and for some reason I just, I could not get into it. So I started challenging myself. Well, how about I read one page in the morning? And so I started challenging myself to read like one page in the morning and then like maybe one page at lunch and one page at nighttime before bed. And so as I started reading, I started building the momentum and the confidence to, to finish the book, to finish the chapter or finish the page for the day. And so over time I started developing a desire to read. And sometimes when people do recommend books, you don't have to always read the books they recommend because they're obviously are biased. They're giving book recommendations off of what they've read. So I highly encourage to just go into like a bookstore and just like go through each book out and just see what stands out to you. But if you're looking for personal development, go to that section and look and see what stands out to you.
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I remember the first book that I actually read and I cannot put that book down. Like that book was so, so good. And it was called the Automatic Millionaire by David Bach. This book, I highly recommend reading it if you are looking to change the way that you view money. And the only thing that I can remember that I wish I would have done sooner was to actually read the book way sooner than what I did. I had that book for like two years before I actually read that book. And it was so good I could not put that book down. I finished it within two weeks and I was so hungry I had an appetite to learn more. And read more. And that was like the starting point of me enjoying reading books that were to enrich my life. Books to teach me about money and also books to just like level me up mentally as well. So the automatic millionaire, it was teaching me like how importance of, like paying off debt quickly and paying yourself first. I never realized the importance of that. Like just paying yourself first. Like for, for example, like if you got paid $100 and you want to pay yourself out of the hundred dollars and then you paid the bill, you pay your bills out, the rest you would pay yourself like 10%. So 10% will be $10 out of 100. Take the $10 and you put it into a savings account and you don't touch it now, over time, that's going to build and accumulate for you. So let's say at the end of the year, you saved like a thousand dollars. And that thousand dollars can be towards whatever you want to spend it towards. Maybe you're Christmas shopping or it could be towards a vacation or a new car. And I'm just using that amount as an example. But obviously you, you can accumulate way more than that. And it's based off of how much you make and how much you earn. So that book really taught me a lot, like how important it is, like to pay yourself first before you're paying, like other people, before you're paying your mortgage or your rent or your car note or your car insurance or your phone bill. Like take a percentage, like have a percentage in your mind each month that you're going to pay yourself for each paycheck you get each week or whatever. So that was like a takeaway nugget. If you're intrigued in reading that book, definitely check it out. The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach. But reading that book, right, for me, it was creating a small habit of starting to read and starting to change the way I view money and how I, you know, change my mindset from like a lack mindset to an abundance mindset too as well. So anytime I would get question like, what is the big change that you made? What is the shift? It's not one thing. It's not one book, it's not one podcast. It's not one life coach session. It's a combination of everything. A combination of eating good, a combination of less time on the iPad or less, less time scrolling on TikTok. It's a combination of working out, going to Pilates, or going for a hot girl walk, or it's a combination of choosing to eat a salad instead of eating French fries for the day. Like, it's a combination of doing a lot of things and not one thing is just going to make you successful. You have to start building small habits over time. That's when you will accomplish the bigger goals that you have for yourself. So small commitments leads to bigger accomplishments, small commitments that you keep to yourself, the promises you make that leads to you feeling fulfilled in life. And when you do things every single day, it adds up. It's like your daily deposit. It's like when you deposit money into your bank account. You have to deposit into your physical health, your mental health, your spiritual health, like every single day. And it adds up. So don't overwhelm yourself. Don't try to read five books at a time or don't try to, you know, work out for two hours. Like maybe work out for 20 minutes. Or you know, like, do break it down. Like, make the goals, create the vision, have the big goal. But also break it down into small, actionable steps that you can easily consume. That works for you. So remember to be kind and gentle with yourself. I want to leave you with an affirmation that you can repeat throughout the day. Place your hand over your heart and just take a deep breath and breathe. And repeat this affirmation after me. I am committed to learning and evolving every day. I am committed to learning and evolving every day. I am committed to learning and evolving every day. Goddess, I want you to stay committed to learning and evolving every single day. And you know what that looks like for you. But if you feel like you don't know what that looks like for you, I want you to find someone who, who shows the life that you desire. And you can take notes. You don't have to copy them step by step, but take notes and learn to apply it into your life and make it work for you. So find you know mentors online that you can look up to, that you feel inspired by. And just take small actionable steps every single day to implement in your life and you can change your life. The small habits, the. The small commitments that you make is going to lead you to a life fulfilled. It's going to lead you towards abundance. It's going to lead you towards happiness, fulfillment, joy, all of that. So your small commitments lead to bigger accomplishments. And every single day when you're learning and evolving, you will succeed the day after day. So move that needle 1% every single day. Build that. Build the resilience in you. Build the trust in yourself. Create the vision, make it simple, and move towards it every single day. Remember to stay positive, remember to believe in yourself and also remember to celebrate your wins. Celebrate the small wins. Okay, if the small win today was you listening to this episode. Celebrate and how do you celebrate? You find that answer within you. Don't always seek answers outside of you. Sometimes those answers are right there when we least notice. So become very, you know, calm and in tune with your own body and seek the answers within you first. But also keep an open mind to learning and evolving from other people too. So you have the power. You have the power to manifest and attract your best life and moving forward into the new year. You are doing that. You are doing that every single day when you're waking up and you're making those commitments and you're keeping those promises to grow and evolve. I love you Goddess. Thank you for listening to this episode. If it resonated with you today, leave us a beautiful five star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Also, come over to our Instagram at Habits of a Goddess to connect with our community and comment under our most recent post of your thoughts of the episode. I love interacting with the Goddesses and I appreciate your love and support. Don't forget to share the podcast and tag us @habitsOfAGoddess. Have a beautiful day.