Making New Habits Stick | Alexis Azria

How often have you began a new diet or workout routine with the best intentions, only to give up a few weeks or months later? Making changes that become permanent habits can be challenging, but it’s not impossible. Here are some tips to help make your new habits stick.

Set Your Intention

Choose one goal you want to achieve and write it down. Is it making time to exercise? Stop smoking? Walking away from your afternoon snack at the office? Whatever it is, ask yourself what are the necessary steps for you to accomplish your goal and establish a new habit that replaces the old one.

Make sure it is something you can incorporate in your daily schedule no matter what. Why? Forming new habits takes time. In fact, researchers tell us that it takes 66 days on average to establish a new routine.

Identify the Roadblocks

Look at past behaviors that prevent you from changing.

If you can identify the cues that drive a bad habit and change it to the one you want, you’ve done half the work. For example, I was checking social media far too often during my work day. I found that everytime I dealt with an issue that triggered my anxiety, I switched my screen to Instagram or TikTok. Once I understood the trigger, I disabled my social media on…