How to Change Habits & Improve Your Life. Self Help Development/Improvement Skills Strategies Coach HD

Have you ever had a bad habit you wanted to change? Do you think you would be happier, healthier, more fulfilled and successful if you either created new habits or replaced some of your current habits with more productive ones? Watch this video for the simple science behind habit change. This video will give you the three primary steps research has shown are necessary to change our habits. Studies by top research universities show that this is true for us as individuals. It’s also true for organizations who undergo cultural norm or behavioral habit changes. You might remember an earlier video from my blog where I gave you the steps to take when you want to create a NEW habit. Well, this video will give you the steps we need to take in order to stop and replace a bad habit we already have but want to eliminate. And we have to do this by replacing the old habit with a new habit. The three steps we’ll discuss in this video come from brain science research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other top universities. You might remember in a previous video, I shared with you the story of how I quit smoking in a single moment when I was about 21 years old. It was honestly one of the easiest and stickiest decisions I’ve ever made. And I have never once had even the slightest urge for a cigarette since that moment. Looking back, I imagine that what I did was to use the three-step process I’m about to share with you. Although when you watch that earlier video, you’ll see that I didn’t consciously take the three steps I’m about to share with you. Although I DID unconsciously take them. You and I both want much more from our lives. Well this obviously requires we get more from ourselves. Which, in turn, requires we change many of our current habits, in addition to creating other new habits. But first, Do you recall what Aristotle famously said about excellence? He said that “we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” Well, don’t you want to be an excellent person? Live an excellent life? And have excellent impact in your world? If this is true, and I’m sure it is, who we habitually are and what we habitually do, defines us and our lives. It’s not our occasional beingness or actions that define us or our lives. Like Aristotle alluded to, it’s our habits that define us. The habits I’ve mentioned are physical activities we undertake virtually every day of our lives. But we also have subconscious mental and emotional habits. What do you habitually think about? Science tells us we have over sixty-thousand thoughts each day. And that over ninety-percent of them are the same from day to day to day… to day… We have habitual beliefs and perceptions. What do you choose to believe and perceive? How about your subconscious emotional, attitude or mindset habits? What is your habitual attitude? Is it positive? Negative? And how positive or negative? These habits define your life. They are, in fact, what you actu