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Originally Posted by YourHumbleNarrator  One key is to pick something you can stick with. It's not simply a matter of what you're doing, the why matters just as much. Without a strong why it'll be easy to lax your discipline and forget your goals.
After that, determine whether you're best off diving right into it or easing into your desired program. Understand that quitting your old way of doing things will bring harsher resistance than you'd face by taking things slow, but if you take things slow you'll need persistent and disciplined focus to keep with it until you've succeeded.
Third, try to think about it as little as possible. For something to become habit it must become natural to you. When you walk, do you obsess over the way you push one foot past the other, or how your body sways with each step? Most likely you pick somewhere you want to go and your legs take you there and you don't give any thought to how it happened. So find a way to occupy your mind when you're ready to succumb to old programming, or completely clear your thoughts through some meditative practice. Unless it becomes like breathing to you the new pattern won't hold. |
lol I obsess on what my body does as I walk, actually.