Here at Art of Brill, we’re all about transformation, but not through humongous life changes…
We’re not talking about suddenly moving to South Africa or deciding to adopt a pet tarantula to cure your loneliness. We’re all about the small changes – the little changes…
“Come on, let’s make some little changes – It’s time to make some little changes”
Cheers Frank Turner
The thing is, success is all about consistency, and consistency is unachievable if you’re trying to make consistent BIG changes… that’s change, not consistency.
So what we want to encourage you to do today – through this little portal on the internet that’s connecting us to you – is plant the seed that making some little changes in your own life could make big challenges, easily solved.
Let me give you an example from my own life…
For years, I’ve been buying cheap bin bags.
The cheapest I can find.
My philosophy is; if it doesn’t directly improve my life and add to my happiness or the happiness of others in some way, I’ll buy the cheapest on the market. We’re talking 30p paracetamol, 50p washing up liquid, 16p lemonade… okay maybe not the 16p lemonade; there’s a lot left wanting there.
Anyway, so there I was, paying (what I already thought was an extortionate price) £2.50 for budget bin bags.
£2.50 for a little bit of plastic to exist as nothing more than a trash container.
Anyway, each time – and I don’t for one second imagine I’m the only one – I’d wait until the bin was full to the brim before tying up the top and lugging it to the wheely bin.
Except, it was never quite that easy.
Envision an overly loaded bin bag being hiked out of a bin.
No, hold on… imagine an overly loaded, very thin bin bag being hiked out of the bin.
A fragile, see-through plastic film that could be pierced by a stalk of a flower.
Yup.
Now picture the contents of that bag, leaking, seeping and pouring out of the new holes.
Almost every time I went to take out the bins, I would leave behind me a trail of tomato and milk residue (and god knows what else), like a much sadder Gretel.
So. Realising how much time, effort, and money in cleaning products I was spending for the sake of not giving into my belief that £3.50 bin bags were not worthy of my hard-earned coins, guess what I did…
You’ll never guess…
I bought x-strong duty bin bags.
Yup.
That simple.
For £1 more, I had no more problems with bin juice, and my life is all the better for it.
It might sound small and obvious to you now, but it took me 5 years before I made that small change, and trust me… I’m not going back.
But I’m not talking about bin bags, I’m talking about staring your challenges in the face and being honest with yourself;
Is there a simple change I could make that would make this challenge disappear or at least significantly lessen it?
That’s 2%er behaviour right there.
Blog post by Izzie Miller