My positive habit forming routine:
Creating healthy habits
My habit forming routine:
They say it takes eight weeks to break a habit, so by proxy it should take eight weeks to build a habit.
If you're looking to add discipline and structure to your life, if you're starting to feel like life has become a little too chaotic in you looking for a means to simplify and narrow your vision and I recommend you trying this eight week habit building exercise and I promise at the end of the eight weeks once a new habit has formed you'll be in the right mindset to add something powerfully critical to your life like a new diet a new lifestyle or a new gym membership.
Positive habit building:
The next eight weeks to build structure into build routine we will be using a mild psychology experiment on ourselves where we rewire the brain and create new neural pathways with good habit.
Every night before bed take a few minutes to do 5 x 5 exercise, nothing too extensive nothing to exert of, the whole purpose of this is to just put your body in a constant routine for eight weeks. Remember it's more about the act than the actual exercise itself, remember we're just creating a habit, a routine. For 15 minutes grab a book, any book or instructional manual and read. See how many pages you can get through, and as you get through the eight weeks try and track to see if you can go from five pages to 10 pages to 15 pages in 15 minutes.
By the end of the eight weeks you should have fully rewired your brain a new neural pathway should be created and you should want, you should be inviting new healthy habits into your life. Those quick 5 x 5 exercises you were doing to get your body moving in those 15 minutes of reading should have exploded and erupted into a gym membership and your newfound ability to focus on something for more than 30 seconds. Plus not having the phone in your hand right before bed is a huge positive and will help you sleep better. I personally think adding these two things to your life can have a huge positive affect on your life and can change it for the better. In the beginning it might seem like a lot but by the end you will want more!
Here’s a perfect example of what you could do just to put your head in the right space for the next eight weeks
5x5 routine:
• 5 push-ups
• 5 sit ups
.• 5 squats
• 5 burpee’s
• 5 mountain climbers
to create this new routine in your life, I just want you to do these five exercises. Before bed do five of each . Don’t go crazy don’t create a whole workout routine. It will only get to be too much for you to do before bed. I’m just asking you to do these five exercises right before bed by the end of the eight weeks trust me you will want more, try not to overload yourself in the beginning. Trust the path for developing new habits.
and lastly, finally do yourself a favour and read a book I don’t care what you read, it can be an instruction manual for all I care I just read something just make your brain work for a few minutes before bed, and you will greatly benefit from that. This really worked for me and I know it can work for you. You just have to put in the work you have to try and then at the end of the eight weeks you’ll find that you’re doing it subconsciously without having to put in the effort. It will just be a part of who you are now.
