Habits are a person’s behavior running on auto pilot. Habits are built through learning and repetition one likely reason people are creatures of habits is that habits are efficient. People can perform useful behavior’s without wasting time and energy deliberating about what to do. It can even form without a person intending to acquire them. Habit formation is the process by which behavior’s become automatic.
Good Habits
People develop countless habits as they navigate the world, whether they are aware of them or not. Understanding how habits take shapes to begin with may be helpful in creating new habits or even dismantling or replacing any bad ones with good habits: -which is any behaviour that benefits your overall wellbeing and helps you reach your goals.
Healthy habits are often harder to develop than one would like. But through repetition it is possible to form and maintain any good habit.
DON’T GIVE UP; STICK TO IT UNTIL REACHES AUTOMATICITY.
We quite often start routines, be it early wake ups, morning jog, yoga, music lesson, diet, reading, the lists go so on and so forth, and always it hardly lasts few days or even a week or two max. why? Because you did not give enough time to register that new activity or behaviour to integrate it with your brain’s neuro architecture to make it automatic.
How long does it take to automate a new habit?
As per a study published in the European journal of social psychology on average, it takes more than 2 months before a new behaviour becomes automatic – 66 days to be exact.
66 days is a bit long, isn’t it?
No worries split it in equal days of three phases – 22 days each. Now it sounds ok 
right.
Phase 1 – Destruction: – it about let go your old routine or habits and replace it with the new one. It is not going to be easy but if you stick with your plan firmly at the end of first 22 days you wonder how you let go that old routine.
Phase 2 – Installation: – this phase your brain will start wiring the new routine or behaviour into your system- as in any project it will be hard in the beginning (Phase 1) messy in the middle (Phase 2) so do not let go stick with it then you will see gorgeous results in the end (Phase 3)
Phase 3 – integration: – compared to the other 2 phases this is easier at the end of this 22-day phase the researchers confirm that now it is easier to do the new habits than not to do. Bingo!
Imagine anything you are great at now is once harder. Recollect your early days of driving, cycling, swimming to name a few.
Remember all professionals are once an amateur. Every master is once a beginner.
DO A HABIT STACKING – ATTACH A HABIT OR BEHAVIOUR TO SOMETHING YOU ALREADY DO REGULARLY
It is a fast and effortless process if you could club a habit to something you already do regularly. For instance, If you want to start listening to the podcasts or audio books, do it while commute to and from work or want to listen to your favourite track, do it while morning walk. You know what you want and what is already there in hand so match it well.
BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO AND HOW YOU WILL DO IT
‘Failing to plan is planning to fail’ so be clear about your daily routine/tasks; make a to-do-list and write it down. Writing a plan down gives a chance for review. Plan your day the night before.
what really makes the great one’s great is what they do every day in, day out – DAILY HABITS. If you insist with your good habits/routines and persist with it you will eventually get to your goal for sure. If you could not do something before does not mean that you can’t do it now. World class is not invented it’s a process believe it or not; it hardly takes a few days of practice.
Give it a try if you haven’t tried yet.
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