Building Better Habits

Posted on September 03, 2021 by Tara Lehman, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.

Do you have a new habit you want to start or change? A lot of clients come to us wanting to make changes and make them last, but it can be difficult. Here are a couple of tricks to building new habits for better change that can be simple and easy to do.

Let’s say you determine you want to stop eating cake, cookies, pie or any other type of bad dessert after each dinner. Meals are a habit, not only because we need to eat, but because they help us gain energy, socialize and be healthy (except if we have the bad habit of eating a sugary fat filled dessert with them). Most meals are around the same time daily as well. It is not likely, when a routine day happens, that you will skip the meal, so it is a perfect time to switch out the bad habit for a good one. What would happen is you made the decision that instead of eating dessert after meals, you did something else instead? What if you switch dessert into a short walk? A conversation with your family? Eating a piece of fruit?

Here is another example. Let’s say at work you have a hard time remembering to drink water throughout the day because you are always so busy. You can’t fathom how on earth you are going to drink more water. You can make a change from what you drink throughout the day. If you are a pop drinker, drink water instead. Don’t like the taste of water? Try adding squeezed lemon to it or infuse it with fresh berries and mint. You can also add drinking water to a habit you already have. Everyone uses the washroom a few times a day. Try adding the habit of have some water every time you return from the bathroom. Then eventually this will be a habit and you will not have to worry or think about how you will get more water in every day.

Do you start your day in a rush because you have so much to do before leaving for work in the morning? Let’s say you barely ever get time to pack a lunch, and therefore eat out a lot at lunchtime. What if the night before, when you are cleaning up from dinner you add the habit of packing leftovers for lunch? If you also take snacks to work, at the same time as you have packed your lunch, place anything else you can pack the night before on top of the leftovers so all you have to do in the morning is grab the food from the fridge and go.

I can assist you with your habits and how to change them, adjust them, or make them happen.
July 2021
Written by Tara Lehman