5 Mistakes That Cause New Healthy Habits to Fail

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Healthy habits are crucial to building

sustainable results. Your habits determine

not only the size of your waistline.

It determines how much money you have

sitting in your bank account. Your habits determine

the quality of your life.

The simple truth to unhealthy habits is as much as

they appear tough to stop, but it can also be as

difficult to begin new healthy habits. Many of us have

once set a healthy resolution at the end of a year

and believed that with the force of our willpower

we would be able to succeed.

How many of you still have not started taking action

on the resolution, you all spoke of about 2 weeks ago?

The reality is that trying to go cold turkey and

relying solely on willpower to help with the necessary

changes we desire is already setting for failure.

We already know this does not work unless

you are incredibly motivated.

Still knowing that the second our motivation is gone,

we will not have what it takes to complete and reach our

health goals. Because every year it’s the same story

over and over!

Knowing that piece of the puzzle, learning how to create

new habits much more efficiently by avoiding the most

common mistakes will allow us to have a much

better chance to reach our new health goals.

1. Not breaking down your goals into smaller steps.

You want to focus on building a new habit simply

by taking in baby steps. If you break down

your health goals whether it’s nutritional or physical,

it is possible.

If you want to become healthier and lose weight,

start with walking each day. (With your partner/family/listen to a study course/etc…)

Walking 15 min a day is already better than doing nothing.

Once you have built the habit of adding a 15min walk daily

(ideally in the first 10 min of walking up), you can increase

the intensity. Move up to jogging and then running.

The most significant action is your FIRST STEP!

* Start with small changes. Then increase the amount

of time and effort when the habit of beginning is in place.

* Seek behavioral changes that are so easy, you cannot possibly fail.

2. Relying on your personal determination.

"Doing the thing, you said you would do, long after

the mood you said it in, has left you."

- George Zalucki

If your habit requires personal determination,

am letting you know right now it will not last.

Your Personal determination should only be necessary

to make a habit of getting started. Habits are automatic.

A personal determination isn't required to eat a candy bar

or watch TV for most of us. If you have a habit of going

to the gym, a personal determination isn't needed for that either.

* Personal determination is a short-term solution.

* Seek behavioral changes that are so easy, you don't need

personal determination every day to build a new habit.

3. Expecting a new habit to be easy to develop.

Change isn't easy. You'll become unsatisfied and sluggish

if you expect a new habit to be easy to implement.

If creating new habits were a simple matter, we would all

be rich, in shape, and speak five languages

4. Expecting a new habit to be difficult to develop.

The opposite is also true.

If you expect the process to be exceptionally challenging,

you'll also struggle.

The thought of doing anything that's hard can be sufficient

reason never to get started in the first place.

* New behaviors are easy to implement if you start

slowly and have patience. It's moving ahead slowly

and having patience that is difficult.

Don’t expect your weighing machine to show you

the result you're hoping for after 1 day of healthy habits.

5. Assuming that you need to know all the information that is out there.

Our society is blessed, or cursed, with access to an

excessive amount of information. This can create challenges.

* It's very easy to believe that you don't know enough

to take the first step.

- There's always something out there that you don't know.

- The need to know everything before getting started

can leave you stuck.

- There's no prize for knowing the most.

* The belief that knowledge alone is sufficient

is just as harmful. You might know how to do pushups,

but that doesn't provide the same results as doing 100

of them each day.

* The special forces have a motto that 60% is enough

to take action. If you know 60% of the relevant information,

you know enough to move forward. You can figure out the other

40% along the way. Spend 90% of your time doing and 10% learning.

Dropping your negative habits and adding new,

supportive habits is the key to changing your circumstances.

Unfortunately, our instincts about change and creating

a new habit are incorrect.

Tiny changes are easy to implement and build upon.

But this approach requires patience and the belief that

it can work. Remember: small changes add up to significant results.

Avoid the most common mistakes when attempting

to add a new habit to your life and you'll find greater

success in adding practices that make a positive

impact on your life.

- The Action KiD