Create 'Positive Snowballs' To Stick To New Habits


Setting resolutions for the new year is easy; following up and sticking to them is where it gets difficult. One effective technique is to make your desired habits incredibly easy to execute initially, and then build on them.

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It's what weblog Pick The Brain calls a positive snowball.




Starting small is advice worth following if your resolution is to lose weight, and it holds true for other goals as well. Pick The Brain also suggests taking the tiniest steps possible towards building your new habit since it puts you in a good mood and develops a favourable attitude towards the change you are trying to bring about.

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    I did this with working out at the gym. CRAZY effective.

    Trainers always want you to do the perfect workout straight away, get all your gym 'vegetables' (legs/cardio) as well as your meats/sweets (upper body free weights, for hitting stabilizer muscles), but if you start on just the junk food of upper-body machines, and make it enjoyably easy - only hard enough to get the endorphins - there's none of the negative mental/emotional associations that come from getting headachey, exhausted, light-headed from a heavy cardio session followed by your legs sucking all the blood from your head.

    After all... junk food's better than starving. :)

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