Guest Author - Katie Byrd
Healthy habits can take various amounts of time to establish. Some research says an activity becomes a habit if you do it consistently for 21 days, but that’s not my experience.
Three weeks might work to form a lifelong habit of hanging your keys in a specific place, but it probably won’t be long enough to create habits for more confronting goals, such as money management, weight loss or major attitude changes. Challenging habits could require six months to a year. In order to succeed with these important accomplishments, your commitment must be “whatever it takes!”
And dealing with addictive or very confronting situations concerning drinking, smoking, sex, drugs, money, exercise or eating habits might also require a lifetime of minor vigilance. But, by taking it one day at a time, things should get easier day by day.
The purpose of creating a healthy new habit is to put that particular part of your life on automatic pilot. Then you don’t even have to think about it. You just do it! Start by choosing a habit you want to incorporate into your life. Let’s call this your flight plan. Next, begin programming yourself with your new habit. Once you’ve got it established, a healthy habit works for you automatically to help you to get to where you want to go in life – your destination.
When you're ready to choose the habit you want to begin with, I suggest you pick from some of the less confronting things on your list. You might even consider habits you rated with a “C”. This way you can get a little practice and a few successes under your belt before you take on more challenging targets.
Creating healthy new habits can be an exciting, fun, rewarding adventure. But, that's up to you. Since you’re the one planning your trip, destination and itinerary, you also get to choose how much fun you’re going to have.
So, cheerio! Bon voyage! Adios! Auf Wiedersehen! Thank you for flying Healthy Habits Airlines. And be sure to have a good time!
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