What does it really take to change your routine or add new actions or practices into your daily life?

Yes, once again, it all starts in our astonishing command center, our Brain. But it boils down to two basic components. Consistency and a strong dose of this:

Magnetic Desire!

I recently heard one of the world's leading Neuroscientists, Dr. Tara Swart Bieber, MD, PhD, talk on this. Her work is targeted to help educate individuals to build mental resilience and learn how to get the most out of their amazing brain. Achieving this adds to one's ability to manage stress and navigate emotions. These are foundations to optimizing wellness over a lifetime and learning to move beyond whatever is challenging us in our internal and external environments.

In order to establish a new pattern or practice, it takes routine, in other words, consistency, as well as emotional intensity.

This emotional intensity is a critical component, the secret sauce.
The goal you desire, or the thing you would like to improve or change… it has to be something really meaningful to you in your life.

And when you see results along the way, that adds and solidifies the fact that you really do need this in your life.

Otherwise, your motivation will fizzle out within a couple of weeks.

And you can’t wait for white space to appear on your schedule. Anything that’s really important to you that you’d like to add in needs to be woven in to your existing routine.

Have you heard of this? I talk about Habit Stacking quite a bit. Which is attaching a new action onto an existing routine.

For example, it has become very important to me that, when I look into my future, I can reasonably expect to get up out of a chair on my own when I am 85 or pick some thing off the ground. I want to be able to walk and stay mobile and active. Being in a season of caring for those I love most who are aging, combined with having worked quite a lot with the mid-life on up population, I have definitely built a magnetic desire to achieve this long-range goal.

In considering what it will take to achieve this outcome, strength is a component that needs to be added in order to make this happen when I’m 85. So I decided, among other things, to add squats every time I brush my teeth. Every time! If I am home, I brush my teeth after everything I eat or drink unless it’s water. So that means I’m doing squat repetitions several times a day! You get results with that kind of consistency. But I added this action to something I already do every day. Habit Stacking.

So anything you’re wanting to add into your day try weaving it in to things that you already have established. It really does work to create lasting practices that become embedded into your lifestyle.

And remember the intention behind the desire needs to be truly meaningful to really

ignite that desire to commit to making the change in your daily.

Additional tips for successfully adopting a new habit or practice and embedding it into your daily routine:

1. Write it down.
2. Keep track and check off days you perform the new change.
3. Accountability is so powerful in supporting your efforts towards success. Share what you are doing with someone close to you.
   

Using this framework, you can absolutely achieve success.

If you would like to truly create meaningful, lasting change, try setting a foundation for the most pivotal part of your day. The Morning.

You might’ve seen that I finally have my Morning Practice Guide up available to you.

This is exactly the type of thing that if you follow this framework, you can make sure that it becomes a part of your lifestyle without you having to carve out a significant amount of extra time in your day.

Mornings can shape the path and tone of our entire day physically, mentally, emotionally and ENERGETICALLY! I would say that is enough to create that Magnetic Desire you need for success!

You can get you guide here:

Morning Practice Guide