Do you make the same mistakes over and over and over? Do you get better ‘for a while’ and then repeat the same behaviour pattern? And do you KNOW you’re (as Britney sang) ‘whoops doing it again’!
You CAN teach an old dog new tricks. It’s all about shifting focus, what your paying attention too, rewarding your ever so good behaviour and treating yourself!
A circle, wheel, merry go round. Have you heard the saying ‘if you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got’? Habits!
The cycle needs broken. You need to step out the circle. Change the programme.
Here’s a suggestion…
Step 1: Be aware and present, recognise if you are repeating the behaviour, become conscious (v-e-r-y important, you need to be aware of it to change it) of the habit, being conscious of it means you can question it. Why am I behaving this way? If I continue this path what’s the outcome?
Step 2: Change the programme. Just like a switch on the remote control for the TV. For example, you’re a procrastinator, don’t give yourself permission to ‘put it off’. Change the programme. Do it!
Step 3: Commit to yourself. If your programme switches back to the old way, that’s not it, you ‘ain’t flunked. Start again the next day.
I heard once it takes 28 days to change a habit…choose one habit today and you’ll have it nipped in the bud by mid January!
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