Healthy Habits Part 1

I know I talk about habits a lot. It's because I know how important it is to achieving long lasting change. I know that I refer often to this so wanted to go into a bit more detail. Although this of course applies to every single aspect of life, I will mostly only refer to health related habits within this blog post. 

What is a habit? 
​A routine or practice performed regularly; an automatic response to a situation. 

Examples of habits: 

• Getting up when your alarm goes off
• Washing your teeth
• Drinking a cup of tea or coffee every morning
• Drinking 8 glasses of water every day
• Getting at least 8 hours of sleep 
• Getting up at the same time every day
• Daily meditation 
• Having a movement routine
• Going into nature at least once a day
• Eating 3 meals a day
• Eating at least 5 fruits and vegetables every day

How you can create a new habit

Simplicity will always win. Keep it simple and it will be easy to do. Keep it simple and you will find it easy to be disciplined and complete it, regularly and it become a habit. If it's easy to do it won't take much motivation, obstacles in the way will make it harder to carry out, thus making it less likely that you will. 
It should be easy and obvious to do and satisfying once done to create and build a new habit. If you are trying to break an old habit you no longer want you need to make it difficult, remove your cues, make it unsatisfying so it is harder to do it and you don't want the results of what doing it means for you. 

Think about the habits you want and the habits you want to remove and implement that simple idea. 

Keep it simple. 

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