The easiest time to change a habit is right after life shakes up your routine: a move, a new school, a new job.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
Habits are held in place by the surroundings they live in: the same room, the same route, the same people at the same hour. When those break, the cues break with them, and for a few weeks the behaviour is unusually easy to put down or swap. After that the new setting hardens and you are back to prising things loose.
If something has just changed, spend the first fortnight deliberately rather than letting it settle itself. Pick one habit to drop and one to install while nothing is fixed yet. Moves, new terms and new jobs are the cheap windows.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What upheaval coming up could you use to reset a habit?
MORE IN GROWTH, CHANGE & REINVENTION
- Getting let go from a job feels like the end. For a lot of people it’s the push into the job that actually fit.
- Your opinions at thirteen were built from videos and your uncle. You’re allowed to review them.
- Thank the swim teacher who held your hand in the deep end. Somebody always held the edge for you.
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