Reminder cards: Why your "Why" is crucial for new habits

You want to remember doing something regularly. Maybe eat more vegetables, move more, be more in contact with your friends or meditate more often.

What is it with you? What little thing do you want to change permanently?

Whenever you want to do something again and again, two things are important. You have to make 1. think about your new behavior, and 2. then also make you really do it.

These are the reminder cards that help you.

• They remind you that you want to do something very specific, and
• They motivate you to do what you have done.
• How do you use the memory cards in your everyday life?

You print out the cards on some tighter paper and cut them out.

You write on the map what exactly you want to do:

Examples:

• I eat an apple every day,
• I agree with my girlfriends,
• I do my neck exercises after brushing my teeth

You also write down your "Why" on the map. So that's why it is so important to you to do just that.

Examples:

• because I want to be healthy and vital
• because every meeting makes me happy
• because I want to have less pain

Your "Why" is crucial for your motivation

To write down your "why" motivates you. So the card gives you the little push that you might need, even if you do not feel like it, if you are driveless or actually have something much more important to do.

Now stick or place the cards where you want to be best remembered. For example, the fridge, in the sock drawer, on your car steering wheel, the bathroom mirror, in your purse ...

When you read what you want to do and why it matters so much, you realize that this little action is part of something bigger. Part of the life you really want to lead.

Eating the apple now is more important than eating something that makes you feel bad later on. Making an appointment with a friend or doing the exercises for a few minutes is more important than the moment you would "save" if you just go on with your usual routine.

The new path is created when walking

Try it. Start an attempt with the reminder cards.

What little thing do you want to change permanently in your life?
What do you think would make a real difference if you could really get it done on a regular basis?
Write in the comments what that could be and why it is so important to you.

I wish you could make your life even better and better with a little new habit.

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