Habits are the building blocks of our lives, so we must ensure that they are helping us reach our goals. Are you aware of the habits you have? We will look at your current habits and decide if they are working for you in achieving your goals or need to be eliminated. We will also develop new positive ones.
Here are some key strategies we will use in building good habits:
- The key to building good habits is to make them small, easy, and repeatable. This allows you to create a positive feedback loop that reinforces the behavior. The key is to get to the point where your new behavior is on auto-pilot, and you can do it without even thinking about it.
- The four steps of building a new habit are cue, craving, response, and reward, and we will develop each of these individually.
- To make a habit stick, we will use the “two-minute rule,” which creates a habit that takes no more than two minutes to complete. This is like baby steps in developing a good habit formation discipline.
- To break a bad habit, we will identify the cue, craving, response, and reward associated with it, then replace the behavior with a more positive one.
- We will pay close attention to your environment, which plays a big role in shaping your habits, and look for synergies. According to James Clear, in his book Atomic Habits, you can use “habit stacking” to create new habits by linking them to existing ones.
- It’s important to track your habits and measure your progress. This helps you stay motivated and identify areas where you need to improve. I will be checking in on you to make sure you are staying the course.
- Finally, by focusing on the process of habit formation rather than the outcome, you can make the process enjoyable and rewarding, and the results will come naturally.