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How To Create Good Habits

How To Create Good Habits
Carly Jacobs
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here’s always a lot of talk around the internet about good habits and creating good habits. I think it’s pretty important to address why good habits are necessary.

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1. They make life easier, you get to spend less time negotiating with
yourself and thinking.
2. They set you up for success.
3. They get easier over time.

Here are a few things that I find utterly essential when it comes to creating good habits.

Get up early

I admit I’m pretty rubbish at this but that’s because I’m a bit of a night owl but I’m slowly changing my ways. I recently spent a few days with a close friend of mine and her family for her wedding weekend and they are the earliest risers I’ve ever met. I’m talking 5.30am, every day. I naturally fell into their sleep patterns and I cannot tell you how much more productive my weekends are now. 9am didn’t feel that late to sleep in on the weekend until I started getting up 7am. That’s 2 whole extra hours. It’s brilliant. Try your hardest to drag yourself out of bed a bit earlier and get some washing/shopping/cleaning done. You’ll feel amazing, I promise.

Make time for the things you love

Productive people know how counter productive it is to totally work themselves ragged all so they take the time to do the things they love. This is also an excellent way to get your butt out of bed in the morning. If you’ve put aside a time bracket from 6am to 7am to read your book, do some craft or watch some Netflix, you’ll be leaping out of bed in the morning.

Prepare for the upcoming week

My weekends are sacred and I try really hard to not engage in any activities I hate in my special time but if I didn’t do a little bit of preparation on the weekend, I would suck during the week. Each weekend I make sure to cook one freezer meal, book in my gym classes and do all my washing. It’s a pain but I pop on a podcast or a TV show and I can get it done in a couple of hours.

This week on Straight and Curly we’re talking about creating good habits and sticking to them. And also about being okay with totally ditching good habits that aren’t working for you.

Stacey and I have been drinking wine again and this is the result of this week’s Sweet Teen Club.

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What is the one good habit you’ve always struggled with? One thing you’ve never quite been able to crack?

 

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2 Comments

  1. Carole 8 years ago

    I struggle with being consistent with my blog. By the time I get home from work, check emails, make dinner, clean up, … then I’m supposed to write. But too often I don’t. I should be writing right now, but instead I’m over here reading your writing. Sigh…

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      Carly Jacobs-Smaggle 8 years ago

      Oh no I’m sorry! 🙂 Try setting a timer. Most of my stuff is hashed out in 20 minutes and then gets finessed just before publishing.

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