6 Steps to Developing Good Habits

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1. Repetition Is the key to a good habit, the more you do something the more automatic it becomes.

2. Consistency Doing something consistently in-grains the pattern in your behaviour. Try to make the action a daily thing.

3. Make the task easier. The easier the task the more easy it is for it to become automatic. Complicated actions or behaviours take longer to become automatic. So break things down, make the task easier, do it at the right time and in the right place.

4. Trigger it. Make your habit an unconscious reflex by creating a trigger for the action to happen, for instance a daily habit you already have could then lead into the new one. Alternatively a particular state of mind (putting on your ‘work head’ could also be a good grounding for creating a good habits.

5. Re-enforce. Consciously re-enforce the habit if you are slacking off. This re-imprints the behavioural pattern, it’s easy to relearn good habits just as easy as it is to slip back into old bad habits.

6. Reward yourself. A positive reward is always a good driver, the brain will always try to take you from a bad place to a good place. A reward for positive behaviour may give your habit momentum, you also know you are getting there with a habit when you feel bad when you haven’t done it.

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