How to Create Power Habits

Habits are Powerful Because they are Recurring. The beauty of habits is they don’t happen once, they happen again and again and are consistent. The tallest mountain can be climbed with just one step at a time.

Think of healthy lifestyle and healthy weight as a collection of habits.
The reason habits are so powerful is because we keep repeating the habit over and over and even do it automatically, like brushing your teeth, hopefully it runs automatically.

The Changes You Want Start with Your Mind.

Use this Neuro-Linguistic Programming process for making a new habit.
Think of a change that you’d like to make and think of the context, where does it fit in your routine? For this example we are going to use adding exercise into the schedule after work.
What are you doing now? I come home from work and I sit down in front of the TV.
What change do you want? I want to come home from work and put on my workout clothes and go to the gym.
What is the cue that tells you to run the new habit? Coming home from work.

See a movie in your mind as if you are coming home from work, walking into your house and putting on your workout clothes.  Perhaps you even play the Hypnosis Motivation for Fitness in the background to get in the mood for a workout while you get dressed.

Then repeat the imagining experience about 5 times, going through the new behavior in your mind. This repetition sets up a new mental habit to remember the new behavior.

Finding the motivation to follow through is a different NLP process, that I’ll be sharing in the coming weeks.

Here’s my Top Tips for Creating Power Habits:

1. Pick 1 habit to change at a time.
2. Start small. Can you start with just 10 minutes or 20 minutes. You can always add more time, but establishing the habit is the important part, especially in the beginning. Start small so you build on successes.
3. Focus on the fun of it. You don’t have to punish yourself at the gym (in fact thats a good way to ensure you don’t follow through). What do you like to do? I love walking my dog, it gives me time to clear my mind and be present.
4. Does the new habit fit into your schedule, is there anything to adjust and change?

What Power Habits will you be adding?

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