7 Steps to Create New Habits.

Flourish Wellness Founder, Liora Pine is on a mission to create a community of likeminded women, giving energy and confidence back into you and your business, through design and wellness / health coaching.

After starting her own journey 15 years ago, Liora now loves taking her learnings about nutrition, using supplements and exercise to help others feel their best. Apart from offering Barre classes around Cambridge and Hamilton in the Waikato, Liora also is a Health and Wellness Coach to like-minded individuals around the world.

We asked Liora to share some ways in which we can all create better, healthier habits as well as to how we can better understand day-to-day habits, which actually take up so much of our energy.

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7 Steps to Create New Habits

The trick is to chip away at your goal in small, incremental steps. In other words, when you know how to form a new habit (related to your goal), then you can turn success into a series of daily actions.

Focus on just one new habit at a time; what do you want to achieve?

Commit to 30 days: During this time, your entire life should be structured around carving out time every day to consistently do it. Anchor your new habit to an established habit: A habit shouldn’t be based upon motivation, fads or temporary desire. Rather, it should be instilled in your life to the point that it becomes habitual.

Take baby steps: Really, the only way to make a habit stick is to turn it into automatic behaviour. You can do this by taking baby steps and creating a low level of commitment.

Plan for obstacles: Prepare and anticipate that these obstacles will come. Then, you won’t be blindsided by them. Create accountability for your habit: hint hint, that’s us in this community!

Reward important milestones: Focus on building a reward system into the process so you can take time to celebrate the successful completion of your goals.

Build a new identity: You can do a lot by committing to a small action, doing it every day, increasing the effort over time and overcoming obstacles.

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Everyday Habits that Zap Your Energy

Messy desks: Missed the memo on spring cleaning? A, US study found that when there are too many objects competing for your attention, your brain’s ability to process information gets compromised.

Working through lunch: Swapping your break for an extra hour of work won’t up your productivity. Research shows it’ll only make you feel more tired at the end of the day.

Skipping workouts: Sure, hitting the snooze will score you extra shut-eye, but you really should get up and moving. US scientists found that regular exercise can decrease feelings of fatigue.

Bad posture: Did you know people feel tired and more depressed when they slouch? That’s what a study in Biofeedback found. So keep a spring in your step, strut with an upright posture instead.

Saying yes to everything: So a life of saying no would be pretty boring, but if you’re constantly saying yes at your own wellbeing’s expense, it might be time to put your own needs first instead.

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