Why Your Habits Don’t Work?!

Just imagine for a moment, and you picked up a habit when you were on a high horse and you remained on track for a while. Things appeared really good for you for few months, and you were in bliss. Oh, well, you experience a low tide, and you go off track of your habits wagon for a short while. Your emotions take a dip, and you leave your habits at bay totally. On and off and the cycle continued till it ceased to exist and forgotten.

Before you actually conclude your hypothesis, “You know what this is not for me as it doesn’t seem to work for me,” said the inner voice of the experimenter with a defeated voice.

Any habits driven by emotions will meet their doom. It’ll fade out sooner or later. A temporary short-term effect that doesn’t last long. And you wouldn’t want to invest your time and energy in short-term effects. Would you ?!

1. Know Your Triggers —

Here, by triggers, I meant any act which tempts you to behave in a certain way when you come in contact with it, where you are attracted to the very deal, despite your strong denial. If you just got a hang of your triggers and you know when and how you will behave followings your triggers. Then you can prevent the frequent slip-up of your habits. And take a note of it when that happens. How wonderful is that?!

2. Recognising Patterns —

Identifying your patterns in your slip-up is a very effective method to minimize going off track of your habit wagon. Even noticing those minute details can do wonders and help you stay on track. Those little hurdles can turn really big if they remained unnoticed for a long time and can pave a way for a bigger mishap. Better safe than sorry!

3. Removing Obstacles —

Make your habits smooth to do without any glitch. This is a wonderful way where you are making the repetition of habits smoother which in turn creates a ripple effect in your favor. You might have heard the quote the smoother the work, the easier the job. So apt right?! Or you can connect one habit with another like you read a book with a green tea in hand! How nice is that?! And this is how you build an association of one habit with another. Remove the glitch by association with habits!

4. Track Your Habits—

You can track your habits through an analog medium or a digital medium. You can choose whatever you feel like. You can use an app like Forest where you grow trees along with your habits. Isn’t it cool right?! There is also an app called Your Hour where it tracks your time spent on apps or mobile Or you can go for a diary or small notepads where you track habits yourself. I prefer the latter one I just like the feel of drawing tracking boxes in diaries. ( lmao ) You can definitely feel the pressure in your system and thus prevents slip-ups!

5. Your Commitment To The Deed—

Well, being emotional didn’t work so You might as well try the commitment binding approach to your habits. It’s a long shot but it’s worth trying. It might as well work in your favor you never know. All you gotta do is stick to one habit like a leech till it’s serves your purpose and you see a definite change in yourself. And the change is maintained throughout your journey by pearls of consistency.That’s some wise words right there! Note it down people discipline, and commitment is the key!! A very wonderful thing to stress upon while you make your habits.

6. Pep Talk— Patience

You have to understand that it takes a while for any habits to become firm with time. First, it’ll take a week or 2 weeks for you to get a hang of it. By the third week, you became familiar with all the stuff. By the fourth week, you have actually attained a decent level of familiarity. Usually, a span of 4 weeks is 30 days from where you started. Hitting the 30-day mark is the beginning of your journey. Then, you move to the 60-day mark. After which you move to your 90-day mark. Then you hit the 120-day mark of your journey. And it continues till you get your results.

You gotta be patient with yourself and see yourself go through the ongoing changes. It may be uncomfortable at first as it offers resistance to the doers initially, but it’s worth trying. It’s a long road ahead but doesn’t forget your steps are becoming firmer with each passing day.

You wouldn’t want your fuel engine to be emotion derivative as it’ll surely backfire instead of discipline derivative. A very wonderful way indeed. And it’s highly unlikely that you waste your time and energy in starting something again and again. Resulting in you coming in full circles. It would be futile instead you can go for the latter one. Besides, You didn’t start anything so that you could leave it midway. You just repeat and enjoy the changes in you and the rest of the effects will compile soon enough.

I hope, you like the read.