Good Habits

To create and sustain good habits there are a few things people all over the world write on their list.

I found 17 things you and I can do to sustain a good habit.

• Find a unifying purpose in life
• Eliminate distractions:
  • Remove devices one day a week
  • Never check your phone first thing
• Value your time above all else
  • Get rid of those that doesn’t add value
• Learn to say ‘no’ with confidence
• Take small steps every day
• Acknowledge you are human and make mistakes. Do not optimize like a machine
• Never be guided by guilt
• Never compare yourself to create good habits- set your own conditions
• Be patient with yourself and accept there will be up and downs, and mostly want to quit.
• Make yourself accountable to others for failing to get rid of bad habits and failing to stick to good ones.
• Eliminate the lifestyle factors that perpetuate your bad habits
• Learn from everyone
  • What to do and what not to do
• Measure your progress in the most specific terms possible
• Reduce the numbers of decisions you have to make each day, possible to reach goals- morning rituals
• Outsource what you can’t do yourself
• Reward yourself
• Never take on more than one habit at a time

Let me tell you what I find the most important from this list; AND maybe put a few of my own ?

• TAKE SMALL STEPS EVERY DAY
• NEVER TAKE ON MORE THAN ONE HABIT AT A TIME
  • MAKE YOUR OWN LIST WHAT YOU WANT TO DO AND MAKE IT FUN
    • My morning ritual: pee, drink water and sit on my yoga mat (do yoga or meditate for 15 min)
    • My night ritual: brush teeth before going to bed. I want to add training (advanced yoga longer than 15min)
    • Make breakfast consisting of a banana smoothie
    • Make lunches and dinner (simple food, I like and will always eat)
• LEARN FROM EVERYONE
• DON’T COMPARE OTHERS LIFESTYLE OR GOOD HABIT WITH YOURS
  • WE HAVE OUR OWN STYLE, RHYTHM AND NEEDS
    • Learn about them by measuring some of your goals
      • Write them down as daily diary- daily tracker
        • What you eat the whole day
        • How your program was
        • Etc.
• REWARD YOURSELF
  • FRIENDS: THE ONES THAT VALUE YOUR FRIENDSHIP AND VICE VERSA
    • Call them for a long talk
    • Hang out with good food, music or a movie
    • Talk personally
• NEVER BE GUIDED BY GUILT WHEN YOU DIDN’T DO EVERYTHING EVERY DAY- JUST START AGAIN
• BE PATIENT WITH YOURSELF.
• BE YOU – YOU DESERVE THIS CHANGE FOR YOU.

So, now you can choose your list or make your own one and use these and more lists on the internet as an example.

Good luck!