I was the kind of guy who liked to be the only person at my workplace who drove a brand new car daily to work. It was the only way I survived. After all, this is a brand-new car. I had to earn it, so I had to be the driver. I had to make all of the decisions, so I had to be the one to stick to the plan.
So it’s funny how most of us think we don’t have to drive a car for our jobs. But, in reality, we need to drive a car to work every day. We’re not just “machines” anymore. We’re our jobs. There’s no car that can carry us all the way to our office.
It has been said that the average American driver spends only 30-40 minutes in their car each day. That’s a lot of time to be sitting in traffic, listening to the radio, and looking at all those other people out there driving on the road. The most we ever spend in a car is 40 minutes. The average American uses their car to drive to work, to go to the gym, to buy groceries, and the list goes on.
If we just use our cars to commute to work or to go to the gym, we can save a lot of time. The problem is that we don’t have all the vehicles that we need to do so. Think about the vehicles that you use to get to work, to go to the gym, to buy groceries. We spend a lot of time driving, and most of that is spent getting from point A to point B.
The car is often the most obvious transportation choice to get from one place to another, and yet, we rarely stop to think about the fact that we could switch modes just a little bit. In fact, most of our daily trips are not made to get from point A to point B. Often our daily commutes are made to get from point A to point B, or from point B to point A.
This is why many people (including me) find it difficult to get started with their own car, or any other vehicle, they don’t even realize they’re making. In fact, they may even think about it and decide to change their habits. I know I do. If I don’t have a habit, I don’t have to think about it and I don’t have to change it.
For some people, this is an issue as they don’t realize that their habits are actually making them do dumb things. For this, they need to spend a little more time thinking about the habits and how they might be changing them. This is why we call it “habits change.
The same is true of our mobile phone habits. We call these habits habits. We call these habits habits because we don’t really think about it. Of course we have habits, but they are habits we have no control over. We want our phones to be quiet, or we want them to be in our pockets. However, habits are habits that we don’t necessarily think about. For example, I know I have a habit of checking the weather forecast.
The problem with habits is that they are often unconscious habits. That means you might like to say you have a habit of not talking on the phone during your commute, but you probably don’t. You probably think about the phone, but your brain is still not thinking about it. You just want to say it at the right time so it doesnt get to the point where you are having a conversation.
The habit I talked about above is the habit of checking the weather forecast. And the habit I talked about above is the habit of not talking on the phone during your commute. You can think of habits as habits that are subconscious and that are usually ignored until they get you into a very uncomfortable situation.