How to Break Through Your Bad Habits
Breaking Habits is Hard to Do
1. - List out every habit that’s hampering your success. - I mean it every single one. I know uncovering habits can be uncomfortable, but this is about progress. You’re trading a little discomfort now to save you the frustration of being stuck later. If you’re struggling to put your finger on exactly what your bad habits are, make a note of all of the things that you do regularly that have started to leave you feeling stressed or uncomfortable or totally out of alignment with the person you feel you want to be now, or the way you want to behave.
2. - Embrace your habits (even the ones that keep you stuck!). - Yes, you heard me correctly. The first step in letting go is acceptance, and what easier or more graceful way is there, than to appreciate every one of the habits you have?
Habits can often be traced back to a genuine desire to keep us safe or to help us live a better or more comfortable life. Choose one habit you would like to change and walk yourself back in time can you pinpoint when they began? What was happening in your life that gave relevance to that habit and which caused it to take root?
3. - Decide which to update & which to let go of. - Habits are our body’s way of committing to memory those things that enable us to conserve our energy and preserve our lives. Do anything long enough and eventually it will become a well-worn emotional, mental and physical path.
4. - Start small & nurture new habits. - In a day and age when speed is valued, the thought of doing something ‘slowly’ can sound counter-intuitive and for some of us, even hard! Sometimes, remembering that those habits we’re trying to update took years to embed themselves helps us to realise that creating new ones takes time too and is worth every minute we invest.
5. - Know the signs you’re slipping, so you can gently course correct. - No matter what the habit there will be signs that you’re sliding back into familiar ways. Decide what those are now so you’ll recognise them when they appear as small sign posts whose role it is to course correct you. We can tend to be very unforgiving of ourselves when we’re trying to do something new but rather than punish ourselves, forgiving ourselves the slip and reminding ourselves to stay the course is a much more pleasant (and more effective) way to learn something new.
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Patty Block, President and Founder of The Block Group, established her company to advocate for women-owned businesses, helping them position their companies for strategic growth. Charting the course for impactful, sustainable, profitable businesses, the beacon is control: of your strategic direction, your money, your time, your staffing, and your ability to bring in business. The Block Group brings together the people, resources and ideas that build results.
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