Healthy Habits for a Healthier You
Healthier Habits for a Healthier You VIDEO
It takes a while to develop a healthy habit, but the benefits are worth the effort. While we think we can use our discipline and willpower to do what we need to follow our program and make better choices, this is often extremely hard to implement in daily life. Our belief that we have the discipline and willpower to do these things are not backed by consistency in action. Forming habits will help you overcome the need to continually work at your health through discipline and willpower. Habits create consistency and allow us to do positive actions automatically and the right habits will improve our health and wellness.
Here are a few tips to help you develop health habits:
Start small. Begin starting one new habit and let that habit become natural before you add more. Slowly making changes is better than overwhelming yourself with too many changes all at once. Try to perform your new habit at the same time, and in the same place, each day. This makes the habit easier to adopt and creates success.
Stack your behaviors. Often, you can do more than one thing at a time. You may have a habit you create while brushing your teeth. Listen to the tips I share on the video for many tips of stacking behaviors.
Eat that Frog. Do your new habit early in the day and before you begin getting too busy to follow through with your commitment. Eat that frog refers to doing the “hard” thing, or the stuff you do not like to do, first and then moving on to the easy stuff. This breaks the bad habit of procrastinating.
Do little things daily rather than trying to do a lot of stuff occasionally. If you miss a day, let it go and move on. While you want to create a habit through consistency in action, there will be times you may not follow through and commit to start over the next day. Of course, consistency will help make the habit become routine quickly!
Do little things daily rather than trying to do a lot of stuff occasionally. If you miss a day, let it go and move on. While you want to create a habit through consistency in action, there will be times you may not follow through and commit to start over the next day. Of course, consistency will help make the habit become routine quickly!
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