What To Do When You Fall Back Into Your Old, Less Productive Ways
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If you’ve ever tried to kick a bad habit, you’d know that the process is painstaking and frustrating, with what feels like more lapses than accomplishments. Elizabeth Grace Saunders, founder of Real Life E Time Coaching and Training and author of The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: How to Achieve More Success With Less Stress, believes that the key to winning the war with unproductive behavior is understanding it and reacting to it in a proactive way.
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- 1. Busting Bad Behavior or How to Stop That Habit from Kicking Your Ass
- 2. Have you ever tried to quit your bad behavior?
- 3. Was it smoking? Overeating? Being disorganized?
- 4. If you have, then you know that it isn’t as easy as it seems.
- 5. Busting that bad habit doesn’t happen in a linear way.
- 6. Elizabeth Grace Saunders: “New habits happen in a two steps forward, one step back pattern. It’s not just having the right system that matters, but grooving the habit so that you reflexively respond in the correct matter.”
- 7. What she means is that it isn’t a matter of having the right SYSTEM, but understanding the habit so you can react PROACTIVELY.
- 8. Habits are actually decisions that we once stopped making.
- 9. It could be the decision to keep smoking. Or the decision to eat another cookie. Or the decision to watch TV instead of doing homework.
- 10. Therefore, we have the power to once again make a decision or at least, lead ourselves into conditions favorable to making the decision.
- 11. So how do you finally kick that bad habit’s ass?
- 12. 1. Recognize Your Relapse Cue
- 13. It’s pointless to blame the system or blame yourself. Instead, see your lapses as an opportunity to create a better outcome in the future.
- 14. Tip: Identify the routine leading up to the habit. Did you smoke a cigarette because you were stressed? Did you eat the cake because you were bored?
- 16. Now that you’ve identified your RELAPSE CUE, it’s time for a NEW, EQUALLY PLEASURABLE, and MORE PRODUCTIVE behavior to take its place.
- 17. Tip: Craving nicotine at 3pm? Think about taking a stroll to your officemate’s desk for a quick chat instead? Wanting to have a second slice of cake? Maybe phone your children.
- 18. 3. Celebrate Your Small Victories
- 19. Keeping a daily record of your small, but real, victories will help you feel great about yourself and motivated to continue.
- 20. Tip: Record your activities. Did you have an apple instead of a steak? Were you too weak to resist the cigarettes today? This record will help you pinpoint what triggers your lapses, and what allows you to stay on track
- 21. 4. Don’t Sweat It
- 22. Excessive worry leads to paranoia and unproductive anxiety. Give yourself permission to fail but continue to focus on the “here” and “now.”
- 23. Tip: Letting go of your fear of failing actually lowers your perception of risk, allowing you a greater chance of finally kicking your habit.
- 24. The success of your future and your future endeavors depends on how resilient you are.
- 25. And anyone who’s ever tried to kick a bad habit knows that this scenario requires ALL THE RESILIENCE in the world.
- 26. So do you give up or do you give it another go?
- 27. Don’t let it kick your ass any longer.
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