No matter how often you tell yourself that changing your old habits is "good for you", that realization alone is rarely sufficient. I knew that eating a breakfast sandwich every day was bad for me, but I continued to do it for a long time.
To make your new behaviors stick, you must embrace and enjoy them. Otherwise, the chances are great that you'll eventually slip back into your old habits. If you think mournfully about how you used to stay up late watching TV while downing a carton of ice cream, chances are you'll do it again sometime.
I had originally planned to devote only one blog entry to this, but I feel it deserves more than that. Therefore, my second weekly theme is "Making Habits Stick - Enjoy Yourself".
Briefly, the most important element is to incorporate things that you already enjoy into your new behaviors. Additionally, you can work to change your mindset so that you really do enjoy things that you previously felt you could not. I'll give some examples of what has worked for me - along with things that haven't worked as well, either now or in the past.
- Sue
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I certainly get tempted from time to time to fall back into the old habits. I guess my journey has just started and can be expected.
ReplyDeleteI do enojy most of the new behaviors I am trying to develop, except maybe getting up at 5am to exercise, still a though one for me.
P.S.: seems like this entry was cut short, waiting on the examples !?!