Believe in the Power of Small
How many of you intend to make a big New Year’s Resolution for 2013? (How many of you have already resigned to giving up on it?) The truth is: setting a huge goal can be daunting. And what’s worse, it can make you feel like giving up before you’ve begun. Clearly, bigger isn’t better. And there’s magic in the Power of Small.
As we ring in the New Year, we encourage you to make a Small Year’s Resolution instead. For example, instead of vowing to lose 25 pounds, why not make your goal on a week by week basis, aiming to reduce just a half pound down as you go? Little by little, you’ll slowly make progress and before you know it, you’ll have reached your big goal without even thinking about it.
It’s just one of the many ways in which harnessing the power of small can help you transform your life in 2013. The more you take time to notice the little things, the more you will discover that SMALL works in amazing and unexpected ways, in all aspects of life. So before you discount the Power of Small consider some other unusual ways in which it works every day:
Simply wearing red can make you feel more attractive. In a study for the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Andrew Elliot, Tobias Greitemeyer and Adam Pazda found that women were more likely to choose a red shirt over a green shirt when they were planning to meet with an attractive man. Conversely, they were expecting to meet an unattractive man, they were more likely to choose green.
It really is your right side. A study by Kyle Jasmin and Daniel Casasanto in The Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, found that real and fictitious words typed primarily on the right side of a keyboard are interpreted more positively than those typed on the left.
As we ring in the New Year, we encourage you to make a Small Year’s Resolution instead. For example, instead of vowing to lose 25 pounds, why not make your goal on a week by week basis, aiming to reduce just a half pound down as you go? Little by little, you’ll slowly make progress and before you know it, you’ll have reached your big goal without even thinking about it.
It’s just one of the many ways in which harnessing the power of small can help you transform your life in 2013. The more you take time to notice the little things, the more you will discover that SMALL works in amazing and unexpected ways, in all aspects of life. So before you discount the Power of Small consider some other unusual ways in which it works every day:
Simply wearing red can make you feel more attractive. In a study for the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Andrew Elliot, Tobias Greitemeyer and Adam Pazda found that women were more likely to choose a red shirt over a green shirt when they were planning to meet with an attractive man. Conversely, they were expecting to meet an unattractive man, they were more likely to choose green.
It really is your right side. A study by Kyle Jasmin and Daniel Casasanto in The Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, found that real and fictitious words typed primarily on the right side of a keyboard are interpreted more positively than those typed on the left.
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