Habits

People begin practicing poor health behavior for different reasons and often without realizing they are doing so. Each behavior has its own set of contributing factors, therefore, these independent behaviors must each be addressed and fixed separately.

“Your habits operate at the unconscious level, you are not normally aware of them. It’s only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it’s doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn’t.

You can change or get rid of a habit once you are aware of it, but it takes time and knowing where to focus your energy. It’s tough to get rid of the habit you don’t want by facing it head on. The way to accomplish it is to replace the unwanted habit with another habit you do want. And creating new and better habits, ones that empower and serve you is something you know how to do. You do it the same way you built any habit you have: one step at a time. Baby steps.” -- The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

Establishing a new habit takes a minimum of 30 days and when it comes to diet and exercise practices, 3-6 months often is needed before a person feels that behavior change is part of his lifestyle.

“Nothing is stronger than habit.” -- Ovid


Info from US Career Institute