{"id":31641,"date":"2015-03-25T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T17:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/?p=31641"},"modified":"2015-03-25T09:42:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T17:42:45","slug":"3-steps-mastering-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/3-steps-mastering-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Steps To Mastering Your Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why is it so hard to adopt good habits like everyday exercising or eating healthy food? To answer these questions it is necessary to understand what people in general, are doing wrong when trying to make such changes in their lives.<\/p>\n

The most common mistake is that they focus on an overnight success.<\/p>\n

For example, John Doe wants to lose weight. At first he is highly motivated, seeing himself as Arnold Schwarzenegger in his best times. In spite of achieving such a huge goal he goes to the gym for the first time and exercises so much, that he develops a muscle fever for next week.<\/p>\n

This process repeats a few more times. But the motivation suddenly decreases. John with soreness and inner feelings of disgust spends a weekend watching youtube videos or reading productivity articles to gain the lost motivation. This could help for a while but after some time John is burned out and gives up.<\/p>\n

Focusing on motivation simply doesn’t work because it is too unstable. But what to do then? Consciously work on building everyday small routines – your good habits. Exactly like brushing teeth which you naturally do every day.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s someone who can tell us how to stick to good habits and how the whole psychology of people\u2019s daily routines work, it would be behavioral psychology researcher BJ Fogg, professor from Stanford. In his academic research he found out that behind every human habit there is a simple 3-step pattern which our routines follow. This is how it goes:<\/p>\n