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Developing Habits

Consistency makes progress. Intensity makes a good story.

May 28, 2025 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

If your default mode of thinking, doing, and being is all-or-nothing, THIS IS FOR YOU! Black and white, all or nothing, perfectionistic thinking is a big obstacle for so many of us when we are trying to do just about anything. We jump into challenges like 75 Hard where the only thing that counts in […]

Filed Under: Developing Habits, Mental Health Tagged With: all or nothing thinking, black or white thinking, consistency over intensity, how to get organized, how to start exercising

Trick Your Brain Into Liking It

May 17, 2025 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

The primitive part of your brain doesn’t like change.It likes comfort. Familiarity. The path of least resistance. If you want to stick with a new habit, you’ve gotta use the evolved part of your brain to trick itself a little by making that habit look really, really good. The more attractive it is, the more […]

Filed Under: Developing Habits, In the Kitchen Tagged With: developing habits, make habits attractive, make habits fun

Start With One Minute

May 15, 2025 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Most of us set ourselves up to fail before we even start to develop new habits or make changes because we start too big. We are so focused on the result we want – lose 20 pounds, run a half marathon, declutter the house, finish a book a week – and we forget that results […]

Filed Under: Developing Habits Tagged With: habits, how to create habits, one minute habits

If You Can’t See It, You Probably Won’t Do It: Make It Obvious

May 14, 2025 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

If you have to remember to do your habit, it’s already too hard. Want a new behavior/action/task to become automatic? Start by making it impossible to miss; make sure your environment isn’t working against you. When you’re working on a new habit, Make it Obvious. Put your water bottle where you’ll trip over it.Leave your […]

Filed Under: Developing Habits Tagged With: habit hacks, how to develop new habits, new habits

Implementation Intention

May 9, 2025 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Want to make your habits stick? Start by being crystal clear with yourself – and the universe – about what’s going to happen and when. Most people hope their new habits will stick. They say things like: “I’ll try to get up early tomorrow.”“I’m going to eat better this week.”“I need to start exercising again.” […]

Filed Under: Developing Habits Tagged With: developing habits, implementation intention, increasing habit success

Consistency over Intensity: Start Small

May 6, 2025 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Most of us try to do EVERYTHING when we want to make changes. All or nothing.  That’s because change is uncomfortable, humans don’t like being uncomfortable, and we want to see results immediately if we’re going to make ourselves suffer. But that’s not how change works. All or nothing leads to burnout and inevitable failure. If […]

Filed Under: Developing Habits Tagged With: change you can sustain, developing new habits, focus on the process, start small

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