This week is all about Healthy Habits! Building long-term routines and establishing discipline.

To understand and adopt healthy habits, we first must understand what a habit is. To make life easier your brain creates habits. These are automatic behaviors that you do without thinking. Research shows that 40% of your actions come from habits. Habits are healthy when they serve you and can include hygiene, exercise, morning “me time” and walking your dog. We can begin implementing healthy habits at any time, but before we do it is helpful to inventory our current habits both healthy and unhealthy.

To start you need to identify the habit that you would like to change or add to your schedule. Once you have identified the habit, it’s helpful to look at triggers or roadblocks that may affect your ability to consistently carry these habits out. These can include people, places, things, time of day and feelings/emotions. Once you identify your biggest triggers you can then plan actions and strategies to eliminate them and engage in the habit you are trying to create!

Check out this CHANGE THE HABIT template! Use this template to guide you to better understand your habits and how they make you feel.