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10 Steps to Successful Habit Building 

DateTuesday, May 4, 2010 at 10:29PM | AuthorKathleen Nadeau, Ph.D.

Habit building is a powerful way to introduce structure into organizing – especially maintenance organizing.  Maintenance organizing is the type of organizing that we all need to do on a regular, routine basis in order to maintain organization once it has been established. A professional organizer may help you work wonders in your environment. But without maintenance organizing, your new orderly environment will rapidly devolve into chaos again. That’s because old habits remain firmly engrained.

New habits take time. Don’t be discouraged if you’re not successful at first. Following are ten steps for successful habit building.

 

  1. Tie a new habit to an old one.  Most of us have some ingrained habits.  It’s easiest to develop a new one if it’s tied to an old one. For example, place your vitamins next to your tooth brush to better remember to take your vitamins each morning.
  2. Make the habit as easy as possible. For example, pick a convenient, visible place to put your keys, a place that makes sense- such as by the door you leave the house from.
  3. Make the habit hard to ignore. Put bells on it, put it in a place where you’ll trip over it, make it impossible to leave the house without it (tie the car keys to it).
  4. Put reminders everywhere. When you are first starting out, put sticky notes where you are sure to see them that remind you to act on your new habit.
  5. Visualize yourself doing the new behavior. For example, if this is a morning habit, imagine yourself going through your morning routine, including your new habit at the appropriate point in the routine.
  6. Practice “instant corrections.” If you forget to practice the new habit, go and do it the instant you remember it, if at all possible, even if it’s not convenient.
  7. Get back on the horse and ride. Habits take time; forgetting is not failure. It is part of developing a habit.
  8. Problem-solve if it’s not working. Maybe you need a different reminder.   Perhaps you need to tie it to a different habit. Perhaps it would fit better into a different time of day.
  9. Practice the habit for at least thirty days in a row. Make a calendar in the kitchen and check off the days.
  10. Reward yourself.  Celebrate when you reach your thirty day goal.
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