Your habits

Tips for creating a new habit

When you want to create a new habit, it is important to schedule it. For example, choose a day, time, and place when you want to exercise intensively for 20 minutes. This way you will make it a habit faster.

On the previous page, we told you in step 3 of creating a new habit it is important to make it attractive. You do this by pairing an action you like with an action you have to do. Identify a current habit that you do every day and place your new behavior on top of it. For example, after I empty my cup of coffee, I meditate for a minute. Or after I put away my work shoes, I immediately put on my gym clothes.

Remember, the more you repeat an activity, the more the structure of your brain changes to make it a habit. You might do something twice in thirty days or 200 times. It’s the frequency that makes the difference!

How do you stay motivated?
Your brain loves a challenge, but only if it is within an optimal level of difficulty. For example, if you love tennis and try to play a serious match against a four-year-old, you will quickly get bored. If you play against a professional tennis player, you will quickly lose motivation because the match is too difficult.

So how do you stay motivated? You experience maximum motivation when working on tasks that are at the edge of your current abilities. Not too difficult and not too easy. The optimal level is the midpoint between boredom and anxiety.

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