Creating a new habit is tough. It’s hard to suddenly start a new behaviour or stop an existing one.
So why don’t you use that to your advantage?
What if you kept doing your usual behaviours, but you changed the order of your routine? You’ll still be doing what’s familiar, but hopefully you’ll experience different results.
As an example, let’s say you want to get healthier and you focus on your evening routine. Your dinner is usually a healthy serving size with lots of veggies, but then you’ll likely have a tub of ice cream or a block of chocolate for dessert, and then you’ll clean your teeth before bed.
You know that the problem is your dessert, though try as you might you can’t stop yourself from eating heaps of sugar.
But what would happen if you had dinner first, then cleaned your teeth, then had dessert?
These are all the same behaviours that you’ve done before and they’re still easy to do. But you know that you enjoy the feeling of sparkling teeth and fresh breath – so how likely is it that you’ll have dessert after brushing?
How can you reorganise your current routine or schedule to generate different results?
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