Breaking and Making Habits.
People associate the word "habit" with negativity.
"Oh that's a bad habit."
Think about it. When you hear the word "habit" what are some of the first things to pop into your head?
Smoking, nail chewing, junk food, etc..?
Habitual tardiness, habitual over-eating are a couple other's I've been hearing lately.
Habits are not only bad things. In fact, the best way to get into a healthy lifestyle is to get into an exercise habit. Or even a "healthy eating habit."
Flip that negative connotation in your mind. Work to change your unhealthy bad habits to their polar opposites. I've read that doing something regularly for 30 days will cause that activity to become habitual to you.
What is 30 days in the broad scheme of your life? A trickle of time. But what if you planted a seed in that trickle and it grew to be a mighty redwood tree of superior health whose branches and roots grew their way through your entire life? We all know regular exercise is one of the keys to prosperity.
You can use your mind's tendency to make things habitual to your advantage by promising yourself you will do some exercise everyday for 30 days. It will be hard the first couple weeks. That's just the name of the game. Buck up and deal with it. But you'll find by the time you get to day 30 you won't want to stop. You will actually look forward to continuing and discovering how far you can really go.
Make exercise a habit worth bragging about.
Train smart,
RL
"Oh that's a bad habit."
Think about it. When you hear the word "habit" what are some of the first things to pop into your head?
Smoking, nail chewing, junk food, etc..?
Habitual tardiness, habitual over-eating are a couple other's I've been hearing lately.
Habits are not only bad things. In fact, the best way to get into a healthy lifestyle is to get into an exercise habit. Or even a "healthy eating habit."
Flip that negative connotation in your mind. Work to change your unhealthy bad habits to their polar opposites. I've read that doing something regularly for 30 days will cause that activity to become habitual to you.
What is 30 days in the broad scheme of your life? A trickle of time. But what if you planted a seed in that trickle and it grew to be a mighty redwood tree of superior health whose branches and roots grew their way through your entire life? We all know regular exercise is one of the keys to prosperity.
You can use your mind's tendency to make things habitual to your advantage by promising yourself you will do some exercise everyday for 30 days. It will be hard the first couple weeks. That's just the name of the game. Buck up and deal with it. But you'll find by the time you get to day 30 you won't want to stop. You will actually look forward to continuing and discovering how far you can really go.
Make exercise a habit worth bragging about.
Train smart,
RL
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