The Quick and Easy Way to Bust Bad Behavior February 19, 2010
Posted by Stacey Jordan in 1.trackback
Everyone has bad habits they’d like to stop and good habits they’d like to start. I know I do! And I’ve learned that the best way to change your habits is to develop a new pattern of behavior. You have to make a change in what you do on a regular basis (common since, right?). This isn’t always the easiest thing to do though (any cigarette smoker will tell you that). However, there is a way to make it a whole lot easier to adjust your bad behaviors.
If you want to be consistent in the right behavior, commit yourself to something that makes you do it. Do something that causes you to be accountable. I’ll give you an example. Last summer I started to become concerned that I needed more physical activity, but like most people I struggle to stick with my workouts past the first week. I knew that I could use the exercise, yet I also knew that I wouldn’t be able to make myself do it everyday. So, what did I do? I decided to give someone else the job of making me do it. I joined a flag football team and I found it far easier to keep exercising. Not only was I having fun, but I was accountable to every other person on that team. I knew I had to show up because they were counting on me. They made me do it.
If you want to become consistent, become accountable. Find something or someone to make you do the things you want to do. I can testify, it works!
Absolutely Agree!!! ONE of my bad habits was cheese! Can you believe it? Cheese!!! Each day of the week I would have a different cheese – smoked gouda, havarti, goat, fresh parmessian, feta and sometimes all at once!!! I have a workout partner that took notice of this. She said, “You work out really hard but I think it is the cheese that is causing you to not loose the weight”. Ding!!!!, a flippin’ light came on. For the past two weeks I have not had an ounce of cheese! My workout coach told me that I should not just cut it out I should it a little of it. Since I know that cheese is my nemesis, I had to. I have to have control over it before it has control over my butt, hips, face, thighs etc. And I can’t waste the time excercising only to put back what I worked off by eating too much curd!!!
What an excellent article ! One thing I’ve discovered about myself is that I have a very addictive personality. Be it good or bad if I enjoy it I”m hooked. However, my natural propensity is to gravitate towards the bad.I was like a prisoner of bad habits . I had to acknowledge what those distructive behaviors were and be to willing to change them. I had to be honest with myself and accept the reality that I could not deal with those bad behavior patterns alone The only way I was going to see the change I desired and ” bust out of bad behavior” was to apply the very principle of making myself accountable to something/someone. Well, I did and now I experiencing the rewards making myself accountable to something/someone !
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