Slim Habits for a Healthy New Year
New Year is a time for reflection on what might have been, and a time to look forward and plan. It’s always a good opportunity to take stock of your life and to try and put right some of the mistakes you have made in the past year.
Examining our errors is something we try to avoid. We don’t like to be reminded of where we have gone wrong. We don’t like to be faced with our weaknesses. Most of us have very low levels of self-awareness purely because we do not confront things in our life. The result is that we allow things to build from being something manageable, to something that mushrooms into a big problem.
We are the way we are because we have accumulated lots and lots of bad habits. A habit is just a learned response, something we carry out automatically. We have good habits and bad habits, but it is the bad habits which, if allowed to go unchecked, start to rule our lives.
We run our lives on habits, things we do automatically, without thinking. Habits make our lives easier to live. We don’t have to constantly think what we are doing. All very useful, but if we don’t audit our habits and weed out the bad ones we lose control of our lives. Things start to happen to us over which we have no control. If we have become overweight because we have lapsed into bad eating habits we lose control of our ability to control our health and well-being.
This New Year you have an opportunity to really examine your habits – particularly your bad ones. Why don’t you make a list of all your bad habits? It will pay you to be honest with yourself. What do you think you need to change?
Having made your list, you need to make change. You can’t change a habit, but you can learn a new one. Learning new habits is the key to changing your behavior. If you want to lose weight permanently you need to learn new habits – slim habits. Wouldn’t it be great next New Year not to be able to say that you have said goodbye to diets forever?
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