I am often asked what habits I live by to stay well, allowing me to thrive and live my best life. This is why I decided to put together my free “Good Habits Guide“.
Habits are the hinges of your destiny, and when you learn to reset your habits, you transform your life. Habits are the small decisions you make to steer your daily actions and create a subconscious ritual that moves you closer or further away from your goal. According to researchers at Duke University, habits account for about 40 per cent of our behaviours on an average day.
It has often been said that your life today is essentially the sum of all your habits combined to this point. What you do day in and day out (often subconsciously) creates the person you are, the things you think about, believe in, meditate on and embrace, which form your personality that you convey to the world.
It takes 3-4 weeks to establish significant changes in habits that will impact your health and wellness. We are all identically different, so of course, some take longer. If you stick to our 30-day Good Habits Guide and repeat it each month, your life will quickly change for the better.
The guide covers all 7 Pillars of Wellness, and when you take your wellness journey month by month, it allows you to readjust and tweak as you go.
You can now implement new habits to support your wellness journey and have long-lasting results.
I invite you to come along to create a beautiful, elegant shift to transform your life.
3 Steps to Implement Long-Lasting Change
- Reminder: Set an alarm on your phone or write a post-it note so that you remember to do something. Be kind to yourself; it takes 3-4 weeks to make or break a habit.
- Routine: Create a new pattern of good habits and implement them first to phase out the old unhealthy habits. Instead of focusing on what you don’t want, focus on what you do want, and the habits holding you back will fall away.
- Reward: Get to know your why, tap into the benefits you’ll enjoy by embracing this new habit, and feel the joy this will bring you into your nervous system. You must feel the reward, not just think it, to embrace neuroscience techniques and train your mind and body into this new habit loop, supporting long-lasting change. Knowing your ‘why’ will also make it much easier when your motivation drops so you can encourage yourself to keep going!
Fuel and Focus for a Change
The body does a great job at healing itself of almost anything when the fuel (nutrition) and function of your 11 systems are supported. Like a car, you need to service the engine and use good clean fuel for optimum performance. The body follows where the mind goes, and if we resist something, it often persists, for our attention is on the negative instead of the positive.
So start from a place of nurture and nourishment instead of a harsh detox and cutting everything out, so you embrace this as a lifestyle change, not some crash diet.
I have broken this guide into four weeks, so you can embrace good habits to support all of the Seven Pillars of Wellness. You will notice we are moving clockwise around the Wellness Pillars diagram to support all pillars.
You can also take our FREE Wellness Quiz on our website to help pinpoint the three pillars you need to work on to transform your health – mind and body.
