Why traveling useful habits disappear

Have you ever had it that you worked long and hard on the formation of new habits, you can see the positive change, but once you go on vacation, a business trip or home to their parents, all tried and tested habits "Flies"?

Here are the main reasons why this is so.

1. Disappearance or change triggers

Habits do not exist in our lives themselves. They are always associated with any particular trigger (context). For example, you are accustomed to, which is usually done in the morning a short charging until the plate is heated coffee. You went on a business trip and forgot about the exercises, because there is your trigger, which is reminiscent of it (the coffee on the stove), disappeared.

What to do?

Their most important habits should be tied to the so-called supertriggeram (a term coined by B. J.. Fogg - founder of Stanford Behavior Design Lab). This triggers that will be present in all circumstances. For example, on vacation, and the trip you are likely to brush your teeth in the morning. This is a good supertrigger to which you can link, for example, the habit of doing morning exercises.

2. The impact of the unusual physical environment

At home you can arrange your physical environment so that it will help you stick to good habits. For example, in accordance with their ideas about healthy eating, you go to the "right" shops, where mainly buy healthy foods. And just terribly harmful dzhankfud you do not keep the house in general. And then you come to the hotel where presented buffet with a huge choice of food. Now access to the grilled sausages, chips and soda is very simple, and you go into the gap. Or collect will in a fist and hold (about the first three days, and then still for rent).

What to do?

First, a sober assessment of risks. So there is critical that during your trip you do not follow good habits? If not critical, I suggest not to bother. The only thing you need to keep track of, so this is a return to a healthy lifestyle after his return.

If you observe good habits on a trip is critical for you, you should advance to figure out how you will fight with a buffet (or other temptations temporary place of residence). Make a decision about how you eat, it is necessary before the hungry eyes see all the variety of food.

3. The impact of the new social environment

For example, your long-term goal - to observe the mode of the day (to go to bed and get up at the same time) to be more productive and more to keep up. In ordinary life you remember about it and do not break your routine. But here you are going away on a business trip, where the program later dining, socializing and parties with colleagues - your regime in jeopardy.

What to do?

Search and offer alternatives of communication that you no longer fit. For example, you can pre-arrange a meeting during lunch time or dinner with the most important for you people.

Another good way to avoid the negative influence of others - "Smoking will be?" "Well, stay here more! For an hour, "" Let me pour you, Che so boring... "- think in advance polite wording for failure. We are often embarrassed to say "no" to people. It is difficult to come up with a course that respond to human and not to offend anyone, and does not hurt. Therefore rehearse this situation in mind, and then at the right moment, the right words will be ready.

see also

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