Replay | How Habits Shape Your Life

Join me as we talk to other busy moms and experts who will share tips and strategies to help you reach your goals . Hope you enjoy this episode of Organized Chaos . Now on to the show . Hey everyone , welcome back to another episode . I am excited to be here with you today . I know I say that every time , but I really do mean it .

I'm excited because I hope you get to hear like a new perspective or learn something new that you can take into your life and apply it . And that makes me excited because I know a lot of the things that I teach or I talk about . It's because I've gone through them , I have experienced them and they've completely changed my life .

That being said , I'm talking about habits today , because habits have been kind of like that invisible element of us having success in our life , and I'm going to talk to you today about how habits shape your life . All right . So let's first talk about what habits are . So habits are repetitive actions that you take .

Now this is kind of like the ultimate step , Because habits come from those small steps that you take that eventually become habits . But first there's a couple levels that you have to go through and the simplest way that I have learned this is that it first starts off with the motivation to take an action , right ?

So let's say , for example , waking up early and you want to stop hitting the snooze button , so you want to get in the habit of just getting up when the alarm goes off . So first there's that motivation , right , there has to be something that makes you want to actually take that action . And then what happens is you have to keep doing it right .

You have to keep , you know , getting up in the morning without hitting the snooze button . So that takes discipline . And when you start to get discipline and taking those actions every single day for a certain period of time and this is different for everybody , right ?

But after you take all those steps and create that discipline , those start to become habits , because it switches over to your basically subconscious mind and it becomes something that you don't even have to think about . So because now it's in your subconscious mind and you don't have to think about it .

It's a lot easier to do it because it doesn't take so much energy to do it . You don't have to convince yourself that you have to get up in the morning . You don't start telling yourself stories or giving excuses to yourself for why you should hit this news button . It just happens now , so you can do this in so many different areas of your life . Right ?

I mean , you've been doing this since you were a kid . You got into the habit of brushing your teeth every day . Our lives are a series of habits . I mean , just think about it . Like everything that we do is habits , whether they're good or not so good . And this is the reason why creating better habits is so important .

But why is it so hard to create new habits ? Well , it's for the same reason why some people can create new habits and stick to them and they basically create their new identity .

And that's basically why it's so hard , because we have created habits for ourselves up until this point , and maybe those habits are habits that aren't serving you now and you want to change them . But they didn't just happen overnight . They happened over time .

You had to do those things over and over and over again , which is a form of discipline , right , but now you kind of have to start over again with a new habit , but with the same concepts and principles . Now let me share with you one thing that's going to help you maintain the habits and which will eventually shape your life .

So the one thing that has been super important in creating new habits is your environment . So you have to have an environment that's going to support your new habits , because you're still going to be in the disciplined phase that I mentioned before , and this is where you're taking conscious actions , because you haven't gotten into the habit yet .

So you have to have an environment that's going to remind you that you have to take these conscious actions .

I remember when I was trying to get into the habit of bringing my food from home to work , so that I wouldn't have to go out to eat , because there were plenty of restaurants around where I used to work and everybody was in the habit of going out to a restaurant or just grabbing a bite to eat and bringing it back , but it was always fast food .

So I wanted to get into the habit of meal prepping and planning and then bringing in pretty much everything that I needed to eat for my long work days . So it was snacks , it was a lunch , sometimes it was a breakfast .

So because I was in the environment where a lot of people I mean they would socialize when it was lunchtime , so I had to get into the habit of finding other people that were basically trying to create the same habits I was . So I found a group of people who were also bringing in their lunch and we would kind of get together and do that .

And because I did that , that environment helped me to stick to my new habits . And I always talk about health and fitness because this is really what kicked my habits into overdrive . This is where I started my health journey was really where I flipped the switch . So another example I have is our garage basically became our gym .

So because it was in our house , it was a lot easier to be able to , you know , go downstairs and work out . Now it kind of evolved over time . You know , first we just had like a set of dumbbells or whatever , but then it just kind of we created this space . That was something that we saw every day , so it was a constant reminder .

But we also made it like comfortable enough where we felt good about going in there and working out . It wasn't like this stuffy old place , it was like a really nice . It had like a flooring that was good for jumping and we had a TV so we could stream our workouts .

We had dumbbells , we had all kinds of things , so we really made it kind of like our oasis , but it helped us stay or keep the habits that we had just created with working out every day . So this made us realize that our environment was really important in order to sustain those habits that we had just created . So we applied this to other areas .

So , because I wanted to read more and start journaling or practice gratitude , I took that and I created a space for that as well . So I talk about this in .

This is actually part of my Chi method when it comes to harmony and this is so that you can have a consistent and basically like a ritual for self-care , like a lot of these things are self-care and this is what really kind of maintains that peace that people want when it comes to creating a balance , or like the ultimate balance in their life .

Now , like I said , I took this concept about creating an environment or creating the space for these new habits , and I started to apply them in different areas . I applied them to my business . I applied them to my business . I applied them to parenting . I applied them to how I interacted and connected with my husband .

So you can take a lot of this and if you can create habits that are going to help you in your life , in one area of your life , you can just take those things that you learned and just apply them to another area of your life . You can just take those things that you learned and just apply them to another area of your life .

So you know , this is like one of them . This is the environment piece , and I wanted to give

that to you guys . So think about an area that you want to change in your life , or just think about maybe even one habit that you want to create . Make sure that you have that space that's going to be one , a constant reminder of that new habit that you want to create , and two , that it's actually going to support that new habit .

So , as I started to do this in every area of my life , it started to shape a new life for me and my husband and my family . So this is basically starts from creating one habit , and then that'll be maybe even the domino that kind of like falls and creates this ripple effect in your life . Then you'll ultimately have kind of like this new life , right ?

So think about that today . Think about one habit that you can create and how or like what that environment can be that will support that new habit . All right . So I will let you think about that today . I hope you have a great rest of your day and I will see you next week .