Create Habits For Freedom And Success

Habits get bad press. We give them negative associations. Smoking, overeating, biting our nails. Habitual behaviour is often seen as predictable, boring, repetitive and routine. What if we view habits differently? See them as personal behaviour patterns we can thoughtfully create. Deliberately construct them to take care of certain aspects of our life, effortlessly. Become their master not their slave. By designing and implementing everyday habits which run smoothly in the background, we can free up space in our brain. This can then be used to focus on more complex thinking, enabling us to purposefully move towards our goals, dreams and aspirations. We can use them to plan a better life and enjoy greater success. Begin by observing your ‘thinking’ habits. Are they positive or negative? Are they your ideas, or the opinions of others? What thoughts and conclusions come most easily to mind? Are they of use to you or not? Are you making limiting assumptions? Check out the language you use with those thoughts by observing the way you speak to yourself. rnOnce you’ve become familiar with your thinking habits you can begin by consciously changing just one. Pick a thought habit which you are unhappy with. Each time you catch that thought arising, alter it and create a new, empowering, thought. Perhaps you notice habitual thinking along the lines of ‘I can’t,’ or ‘I don’t have time.’ Reframe the words to ‘I can’ and ‘I’ll make time.’ This will soon replace the old negative reflex. As soon as the activity becomes automatic and you do it without thinking add a new one. Begin slowly and you’ll soon find that once you see the results you’ll be wanting to add more and more empowering habits to your life. Here are three fundamental ones. 1/ Give yourself extra time by getting up an hour earlier. rn2/ Keep you body trim by adopting a daily exercise routine. Make sure it’s something you can continue. It needs to become a habit! So start small. rn3/ Eat healthily and drink plenty water. However, if you find that a habit ceases to work for you and no longer has a purpose, change or drop it. Only keep the behaviour which is constructive and useful. Your acquisition of this strategy is one by which you will create positive habits and discover freedom and success.