Creating Healthy Habits: 3 Best Practices1. Creating Context
For example, we want to develop the habit of taking a lunch break every day and eating a healthy meal outside of the computer. In this case, we can suggest that a colleague eat lunch together and, supporting each other, get up and go out to the coffee shop together.
2. Regular repetition.
The action is quickly recalled when we find ourselves in the same context again. A habit will only be reinforced if we are consistent. So it's important to stick to habits that we really want to build into our lives and experiences that we want to experience and appreciate time after time.
3. Rewards for Change.
Context will make the journey easier, and repetition will start the "engine," but unless we receive even small rewards for our efforts along the way, we will have no incentive to move forward. To help with habit formation, rewards need to be significant - bigger and better than what we've already.
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