Mindful Monday - New Year - Creating New Habits...

New Year's Eve tomorrow!

This time of year has me reflecting and thinking of ways to make the next year better than the previous year.

Is that making a New Year resolutions?

I want to implement these ideas and intentionally create new habits with them!

I have a process for doing this so it's not like many resolutions that you start off with a bang then it gets dropped or fades into the background.

I'm going to call on my awareness and willpower to start internalizing the new behavior and start to make it something I will do automatically without having to think about it, develop a new habit.

Steps for Process Used to Develop New Habits

1)Making the Decision of What Exactly It Is You Want to Do

• First step is to be aware of what you want that new habit to be, being as specific as possible.
• Now make a commitment to the when and how you specified in the first step

2)Having a Firm Commitment Then Call on Some Willpower to Set Things in Motion

• When things inside you are resisting the change this is a good time to have set a daily reminder (like setting an alert on your phone, putting up sticky notes in strategic places or adding it to your daily to-do list) This will help you avoid slipping back into old habits.
• Set yourself up for success!

3)Make It Part Of Your Routine So You Can Slide Into the Habit

• there may still be some resistance to push through before it starts to feel natural. This will entail some willpower but by adding it to your routines it limits the amount of will power needed
• If you can incorporate it into your existing routines all the better, but setting up a new routine works too and you will not have to rely on those daily reminders.
• Practice the routine until it’s second nature

4)Work on Having Success With One Change at a Time

• It’s hard to keep up willpower for any length of time, eventually our willpower fades and may run out.
• Work with your awareness and will power to create that one new habit. Work at it for a complete cycle (it is said it takes about 30 days to form a habit) before taking on another development of a new habit.

Knowing that it is harder at first but as you start to establish that habit, it becomes easier until it takes on a life of it's own and you don’t even have to think about it anymore. Knowing this process can help you stick it out.

So while you're transitioning from willpower to habit use the tools I mentioned to make it easier. An accountability partner can be very motivating too.

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Go ahead and create a new habit and reap these benefits -

We all have numerous amounts of decisions to make in a day and you may find it gets harder at the end of the day when you are tired to make decisions. You can cut out a lot of decision making by implementing habits and routines. Prioritize and save your "on the spot" decision making for the important stuff. That way you will free brain space for your creativity! It can help cut out a lot of daily stress too and simplify your life!

May 2020 be a wonderful year for you full of lots of love, peace and joy!

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