how to form new habits

5 Ways To Make New Habits Stick

Wouldn’t it be great if everything in your life was completely automated? You would no longer have to remember to get up and go to work or do your daily chores. You would exercise regularly and eat the healthiest things.

But unfortunately, life doesn’t work that way and you have to be involved in the process.

There is something that you can do to make your life a lot easier and a lot more rewarding though. That is to form some good habits so that you tend to do the most important things in your life automatically.

Sounds good doesn’t it? Yes it does but forming new good habits requires a lot of time, effort and patience.

If you don’t go about it the right way then your new habits will not stick. In this article we will show you ways that you can make your new habits stick.

Start In A Simple Way

A lot of people fall into the trap of trying to totally change their lives in a single day.

It doesn’t work like that. When you are committed to forming new good habits in your life you will be very motivated at first but it is easy to lose your motivation if you are trying to make too many changes.

Start off with small changes and then build from these.

Make A 90 Day Commitment

You will need to run a routine for at least 21 days to become comfortable with the change.

To turn this into an automatic habit will require an average of 66 days.

So ,we recommend that you make a 90 day commitment to your new habit. 90 days is not a long time in the scheme of things and it will pass quickly.

The Importance Of Daily Routines

The best way to make a new habit stick is to be consistent with it. You want to create a new daily routine which includes your new habit.

So, if the new habit you want to form is regular exercise then participate in some form of exercise every day.

Don’t go crazy here. You do not want to join a gym and commit to completing a full workout each day.

This is a disaster waiting to happen. Find a form of exercise that is beneficial that you can easily do at home. Gradually migrate to going to the gym a few times a week.

Create A Reminder System

It is important that you never lose sight of why you are forming a new habit.

The stronger your reason for creating the new habit in your life the better.

So, create a reminder system that will always remind you of why you are putting in this additional effort and making sacrifices.

Write down your reason for making the change and make this strong for example.

Remove Things That Will Tempt You Back Into Bad Ways

Forming a new habit is a tough thing to do and you will help yourself enormously if you remove temptations that could push you back into your bad habits.

If you are changing your diet to a healthy eating plan then get rid of all those forbidden foods from your kitchen for example.

Making your new habits stick is not easy so give yourself all of the help that you need by following these tips.

These are not difficult things to implement in your life and they will make the difference between success and failure.

Of course, when we create new habits, we want them to ones that are positive and empower us.

But sometimes we acquire bad habits and need to break free of them but how do you do that?

The Best 5 Ways To Break Bad Habits

Most people have attempted to break bad habits in their life before but found the process so difficult that they gave up and resigned themselves to accepting the bad habit. This is not a place that you want to be in.

You need to break bad habits using the best techniques. It doesn’t matter if you eat too much junk food, spend too much money on things that are not important or procrastinate too much; you can break these bad habits when you know how to do it properly.

So, let’s look at 5 of the best ways to break your bad habits.

Breaking a bad habit is one of the most liberating things that you can do in your life. So please read on and then start putting what you learn into practice.

Make Indulging In Your Bad Habit Painful!

People will usually do more to avoid pain than they will to gain pleasure. So, with this in mind it is a good idea to create a pain situation related to your bad habits.

If you eat too much junk food, then fine yourself each time you visit the hamburger joint. Make this significant such as $20 that you give to your spouse or children when you do this.

Another thing that you can do is to engage in a wager with someone over your bad habit. Make it a large enough wager so that it will be really painful for you if you have to pay it out.

You do not have to use money for this pain. Giving up something that you love can be just as painful if not more. The wager could be over your new video game console for example.

What Triggers Your Bad Habit?

You need to understand what kicks off your bad habit in order to break it. This is called a trigger and it can be one thing or several different things.

Most of us indulge in our bad habits without even thinking about it. We then tend to believe that we can never break the habit because it is automatic.

It is not automatic it just happens very quickly so you think that it is. So, when you next crave your bad habit identify what caused this craving.

The more that you know about your bad habits the more likely you are to break them.

Remind Yourself

You may have the very best intentions to break a bad habit but if you experience a sudden drop in your willpower then you can find yourself easily indulging again.

In order to avoid this, we recommend that you place reminders around you that you are on a mission to break a bad habit.

This will help you to refocus and continue with your good work.

Change Your Environment

As we have seen above, a lot of bad habits are triggered from being in a certain place or seeing the same things over and over.

To avoid these triggers, you can make some small changes to your environment. They don’t need to be massive to make a difference

If the route you take to work stresses you about because of the traffic and makes you want a cigarette then try different routes.

Take Small Steps

You need patience and persistence to break bad habits. Trying to make massive changes in your life all at once is going to be really challenging for you.

It is better to take smaller steps and introduce smaller changes over time that lead to the eventual big change.

You really need to work on building good habits and to do that you will need to develop a strong success mindset and that is easier than you think; you may just need a few pointers to help you out along the way.

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