A New Way of Thinking About Habits

Here’s what I’ve noticed (that might be helpful for you…)

Habits…

In discussion with a small group yesterday about goal-setting and how to set direction without distraction, we circled, at one stage, around the subject of habits.

I noticed that, as each of us used examples from our own lives about things that we were doing, they fell into two big categories:

1. HABITS THAT EVOLVE FROM WHAT WE ALREADY DO

This is like my own experience of intermittent fasting. Over the years, especially when I started to work from home and could set my own schedule, I’ve tended to start eating later in the day. It felt more natural to have two meals a day; it wasn’t a prescription, it wasn’t intentional, it just evolved.that way.

At some point I came across a name for it — intermittent fasting. I started to read around, gain some knowledge, and download an app (actually the downloading of the app was accidently but that’s another story!)

I noticed, though, that the app helped me be less inclined to snack later in the evening and that felt like a good thing… again there was no ‘decision’ here, no need to call up my will-power, just an evolution and a noticing. I could say more but the point isn’t about my eating…