Habits
As James Clear, author of Atomic Habits highlights, Habits are the small decisions you make and actions you perform every day. According to researchers at Duke University, habits account for about 40 percent of our behaviours on any given day.
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Feeling Curious?
Take a look at https://jamesclear.com
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Four Stages of habit formation
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Another useful resource comes from Charles Duhigg Author of The Power of Habit.
Charles identifies to create a new habit you need to put together a cue, a routine, and a reward, then associate a craving that drives the loop.
You can't remove a bad habit, you can only change it by using the same cue, provide the same reward, but change the routine.
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Here are three simple tips, however be curious to find more for yourself.
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Diagnose your habits.
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What do you want to change
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Keep a habit Tracker in your journal
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What is common between both Charles and James approaches is that there needs to be an awareness to create, change or break a habit.
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Top Tip: In your Strive25 Journal create a Habit Tracker page each month. Be sure to notice both habits you are trying to create as well as habits that you at first were unaware of and that you feel could do with changing. .
Another book/ video that can support the importance of habits is Tiny Habits Method by BJ Fogg. This video provides a really nice concept for creating Tiny Habits to lead to big changes.
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In your journal, add in the three methods form this video and explore how this can impact you.