Use Visual Cues – Nafs Hacks 1 – Ramadan Reflections 2019
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Anytime you’ve started to bring on a new good habit or want to implement some kind of new behavior, what I like to do is to use visual cues, as well as remove all obstacles out of the way to implement that habit in my life.
So examples, I mean normally we talk about athletes and they talk about visualizing you doing something, whether it be like Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf at the free-throw line trying to make those free throws, or someone like Ibtihaj Muhammad trying to perfect in her head the perfect lunge for fencing. That’s one side of visualization.
I take that visualization in a different direction, meaning that when I want to implement something in my life—a new practice or whatever—I like to have those visual cues really close by so it’s reminding me to do them. Say if I want to start a gym regiment in my life, I won’t have my gym shoes tucked away somewhere, or my gym card away somewhere where it’s out of sight out of mind. I want those visual reminders always there, close by, so that when I am ready to move in that direction, I’m ready to add those things.
I’m thinking about incorporating the Qur’an more in my life and trying to read more. I want to have a copy of the Qur’an really close by in the places I operate. Maybe on my desk at work, or where I work at home. Not somewhere tucked away or just on display far away, or on display far away but easily within reach so that when I touch it by instance (I think) oh let me read now, let me take that moment now.
Same thing with if I’m trying to implement dhikr in my life. If I have my beads with me when I touch them or bump into them, I say, ‘Oh yeah let me do that thing now.’ So, visual cues are one way to implement these good things in your life and thats my nafs hack.
I hope you have a good day in Ramadan.
Ramadan Mubarak!
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