On the path to habit forming there are a few moments that will provide you with significant progress toward securing your habit and the big one is what I am calling the Day After. When you have a good day, or you accomplish something great with your newly forming habit – there is a tendency to fall off the course the next day. A behavioral psychologist could probably hypothesize as to why, I just know that it is coming now.
For example, yesterday, I ran 13.5 miles. I knew that I was going to be in shut down mode today – wanting to relax instead of experiencing more exertion. Perhaps this is natural, the body wants to rest after a major accomplishment. However, when on the path to habit forming you need to do it anyway. When teaching a child to brush their teeth every night, they will whine – but I brushed my teeth really good yesterday! You as the parent , make them do it again and overtime the child becomes so repetitious that you no longer need to monitor them – they just do it.
So when your mind and body scream – I did really good yesterday! You will do to your inner mind the same thing your parents did. Sorry primeval Guy mind – you have to do it again, and in fact just for complaining I am going to make you run 4 miles instead of 2 this morning! So I did, put one foot in front of another and scrambled my way through 4 miles. This is what habits are made of.
A habit becomes solid when you make the decision to force yourself through the tough times (almost always the Day After success) and you come out stronger, more engaged. If you can overcome your inner mind – then little stuff like rain, cold, wind will feel like simple issues to solve for.
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