The third part of the habit loop that I’ve been covering for the last few days is the “response”.
It’s the thing that we do.
The exercise, eating, drinking, going to bed, doing some work, etc.
It’s the actual thing that we want to make habitual or to stop or do less often.
And to approach this in a way that maximises success, we want to make it as EASY or HARD as possible.
For creating a new habit can we put steps in place so that that’s as easy as possible to do at that point.
We’ve already got that food in on a click and collect earlier in the week.
We’ve selected minimal prep time choices.
Our work out gear is already in the car.
The workout is already planned and scheduled in the diary in advance.
It’s a form of exercise. where we just turn up and get told what to do (cough *** www.myrise.co.uk/apply *** cough)
It’s on our way to somewhere we’re going to anyway.
Conversely, how can we make the thing we want to do less of harder to do?
We don’t have the food in the house – we can still pop out to the shop if we really want to, but it’s definitely less easy.
We have a time based blocker on our phones or PCs for specific websites and apps, we only allow access on the PC and not on phones and / or we leave our phones downstairs at night.
We change something about our schedule so that thing we want to avoid is more out of the way.
You guessed it, no right or wrong.
But if we make the thing we want to do more of as easy as possible and the thing(s) we want to stop or do less of as hard as possible then, again, that makes those changes considerably more likely.
Much love,
Jon ‘Pack’ Hall
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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!
