The simple steps of habit change: (from zen habits:)
- Write down your plan.
- Identify your triggers and replacement habits.
- Focus on doing the replacement habits every single time the triggers happen, for about 30 days.
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Such as:
1. Do just one habit at a time.
2. Start small.
3. Do a 30-day Challenge.
4. Write it down.
5. Make a plan.
6. Know your motivations, and be sure they’re strong
7. Don’t start right away.
8. Write down all your obstacles
9. Identify your triggers.
10. For every single trigger, identify a positive habit you’re going to do instead.
11. Plan a support system.
12. Ask for help
13. Become aware of self-talk
15. Have strategies to defeat the urge.
16. Prepare for the sabotagers. .
17. Talk to yourself.
18. Have a mantra.
19. Use visualization.
20. Have rewards.
21. Take it one urge at a time
22. Not One Puff Ever
23. Get rest.
24. Drink lots of water.
25. Renew your commitment often.
26. Set up public accountability
27. Engineer it so it’s hard to fail.
28. Avoid some situations where you normally do your old habit
29. If you fail, figure out what went wrong, plan for it, and try again.
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