Breaking Bad Habits-take control & smash the ties that bind!

In this lesson we are going to look at definitions and talk through what actually makes a habit a habit so that you can get to grips with how to shape change and break habits that no longer serve you.

In Pulitzer prize winning author Charles Duhigg's book "The Power of Habit" he explores the concept that if you don't get your habits right – you will NEVER reach your goals. There have been many neurological research projects and studies that prove that when a new neural pathway develops  habits become  'sticky ' and that make some habits  very tricky to break!

When you understand habits and habit creation you will be in full control of your behaviour. There is a process or science to changing habits and we are going to cover that in this lesson

In the last session, we looked at the science of habit change, given you the framework to change a habit and gone into the first part of the routine and the reward of the habit loop so that you can start to change any of your bad habits. In this session, we are going to look at the vitally important difference between habits and addiction.

We all develop bad habits. Every single one of us. There's not one person I've come across during this life that is habit free. So again, be kind as we go through and study your habits. Some bad habits will have developed as a result of a prior trauma in your life. They become a coping mechanism so until we "re-wire" them

Lets look at a process to change a habit that works within the framework we discussed earlier so that you can start to work on making a change to those habits that don’t serve you

A cue is a trigger that encourages and sets you up for your habitual behaviour. The cue acts as a automatic reminder (like a little internal alarm) for the habit and makes you want to put it into action.

In this session I'm going to demonstrate the importance of shaking things up and doing things differently so that you can really get a hold of that habit that you want to change, look it in the eyes and start to move to get it out of your life for good.

In this session we will take a look at finding a more rewarding or purposeful reward. Many rewards associated with bad habits cause a short rush of feel good hormones to flood through the body causing an emotional and physiological high almost always followed by an array of negative emotions

In this session I'm going to show you the 20 secrets for successful habits as outlined by James Altucher - from an article in GQ Magazine who listed these as the habits of rich and successful people so that you can check off which ones you currently have and which ones you would like to implement.

In this session we're going to take a quick look at what may come up from your "inner critic " better known in Chrysallis circles as your "Fragile Ego". You know that little voice inside that persists in voicing things like " You'll never change this" "You've always done so and so" "You've tried to stop before and always failed!"

In this session I'm going to show you how to make sure that you maximise the success of changing your bad habits by planning and having a strategy to deal with the obstacles that WILL present themselves.

In this session we are going to wrap it up to create a plan to address the bad habit you have chosen to focus on removing

How did you go with your Habit Change Form?