New good habits help you become better, wiser, more resilient, stronger and happier. They form a lifestyle, they affect thinking, personal growth, well-being and health. Only work on their acquisition is necessary correctly.
Instruction manual
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There is a rule: work on only one new habit at a time. Some people make the mistake of deciding to become a new person overnight and starting to radically change their lifestyle. Their brain begins to actively resist such major changes, the implementation of several habits lacks willpower and motivation and nothing changes. I tried to get up at 6 in the morning instead of 9, run every day, study English for an hour, eat the right food and live consciously and quit after a week. And it was necessary to prioritize habits and work them out one by one. Then the result would be more tangible.
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Move gradually. You do not need to immediately demand great results from yourself. Remember the body’s resistance to big changes and try to deceive its desire to remain in the comfort zone. Take small steps in the development of a new habit. But do them regularly and gradually increase the pace. For example, you want to stand at the bar for 5 minutes every day. Start with 10-20 seconds and add 10 seconds each week. Then you will be able to achieve your goal in a comfortable mode for yourself and without stress for the body.
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Create neural connections. The brain tries to constantly tie thoughts and condition to the external environment. Therefore, if you forget what you wanted to do, it’s worth returning to the place where this or that thought visited you, and it will pop up in your memory. Use this feature. Tie a new habit to actions that are already firmly entrenched in your lifestyle. For example, start reading before bedtime if your goal is to read daily. For convenience, keep a book near the bed.
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Give the new habit enough time to take root. And only then proceed to the next. There is popular information that this requires 21 days, but in practice, for different people this period can be more or less. In addition, the term depends on the type of habit. As soon as you feel that you are doing something new on the machine, then the habit has taken root.