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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

The Sneaky Trick That Makes Habits Stick

May 13, 2025 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Between work, kids, laundry, and 250 new emails a day, it can feel impossible to find time for anything new, especially the new habits we can’t seem to make happen – drinking more water, stretching, strength training, organization, wathever. But there’s a way to make new habits feel doable – even on your craziest, busiest […]

Filed Under: Self Care Tagged With: eat the frog, habit pairing, habit stacking, habits, how to develop new habits

Did You Do It Today?

May 7, 2025 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

It doesn’t take 21 days to develop a new habit. That’s misinformation that spun from a plastic surgeon’s observations. Maxwell Maltz was a plastic surgeon and a writer. In 1960 he published Psycho-Cybernetics, which is still regarded as a classic self-help book. Maltz noticed with his plastic surgery patients that it took about 21 days […]

Filed Under: Self Care Tagged With: how to develop new habits, Psycho-Cybernetics, setting boundaries

The Four Keys to Making Changes You Can Actually Maintain

January 11, 2021 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

It’s January 11th and that means many of us have already given up on the changes we vowed to make in 2021. There is good news. 1. You aren’t alone. and 2. You can start again! Making changes is not as difficult as you think. In fact, the process is pretty simple. It’s really just […]

Filed Under: Self Care Tagged With: how to develop new habits, how to make changes, mindset shifts

I’m Running A Free 5-Day Challenge And You Might Wanna Join It

December 18, 2020 by not your average mom 2 Comments

A couple weeks ago I ran a free 3-day challenge called the Mindset Challenge. It was almost a last-minute idea — like I thought of it the week before — and so it was rushed and I didn’t get to run it the way I really wanted to. In my mind, I was going to […]

Filed Under: Self Care Tagged With: how to develop new habits, how to make changes, online challenges, online courses

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