How to Change Your Habits

Habits are generally the choices and actions we make that usually occur in everyday life. What you do on a daily basis shapes the person you are, your beliefs, and the character you project. Everything starts with healthier habits; you can change your life by learning to change your behaviors.

Create a List of the Habits you want to change.

Making a habit list is meant to help you become more conscious of the things you want to change in your life.

It allows you to acknowledge what is wrong here and sets you on a path to fix it. It may seem overwhelming, but it’s a start in a process that leads to change.

Make a list of your habits on paper. Pen and paper is highly recommended because it allows you to physically do something. It may not seem like much, but what you in fact are doing is subliminally giving yourself a message of “Hey I can do this.”

Identify the “Why” behind changing these habits.

It all starts with a “Why.” A “Why” is the most important part because it’s your motivation for making a change. Reach deep inside yourself and determine your “Why” because it has an emotional connection. When you have an emotional connection to something, you are more likely to place it as a priority and work harder at it too.

On your piece of paper after you write down the habits you want to change, make sure to annotate right beside them the “Why.” Also, take 3 to 5 minutes pondering the “Why” and really dig deep.

Apply Yourself

You’ve found your “Why” and reached deep inside yourself to change. Now it is up to you to apply it to these habits.

Take your list, study it, and memorize every word you’ve written. The reason this is important is because it’s your own self-motivation. Remember, you wrote everything; how deep you dug determines how you’ll change these habits.

When a habitual behavior you developed a “Why” for comes toward you; you’ve memorized your list, you’re less than likely to even think of making that mistake.

Don’t Give Up!!!

It’s going to be hard a first, but never give up!!! You may make some mistakes on the way, but mistakes are a part of success because you learn from them. Think about a baby that crawls before walking, that’s the stage you are at.

Even though you make mistakes along the way, never let them get to you. It’s a part of mindset, being able to never let things get in the way of your potential to achieve.

All in all,

Your new behaviors can quickly become second nature if you use this plan and have patience. Remember you start out in the crawl phase, you don’t walk first.

As a coach and mentor, I’ve taught lots of people to change just by simply implementing techniques I learned myself.