Choose one exercise habit to start with. Don’t try to change five different things at once regarding your new fitness routine. Pick only one thing to change at first. Plan ahead. Do the thinking and research needed to plan for … Continue reading →
Can you call something a “habit” if, when your routine is disrupted, the “habit” gets neglected?
I don’t think so. Habits aren’t habits unless they have become almost automatic. If something as small as a routine change stops a habit then it wasn’t a habit at all.
That’s bad news for me. I’ve been trying to instill the habit of more and better exercising into my life since January and a recent trip out of town totally broke down my “habit” into almost nothing. I mean, even after getting back home I’ve been really struggling to get even close to what I was doing before I went on this little trip.
Continue reading →1. Try to change too many habits at once. This does not work. You really need to choose only one habit to change at a time. This has been my personal reason for most of my habit change failures—I was trying to change several things at once.
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