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Change Your Habits in Five Days

In March Winds: What’s Blowing Our Way I described some challenges I’ll be hosting this March and the first of these challenges begins this Monday, March 5th. I wanted to give you a heads up on what to expect and what the challenge is so you can decide to participate or not. Personally, I hope you will participate because I think this will be a fun challenge for everyone.

Change Your Habits in Five Days

Habits are things we all get into doing regularly either through accident or design. This challenge is asking you to consciously change one habit for five days and after five days, you can resume the habit if you choose or honestly analyze if by changing it, you’ve given yourself a more positive outlet for your energy and your desires and it may help you instigate more positive changes in the future.

So What Do You Have to Do?

Pick a habit that you perform daily and give it up for the next five days. It can be any habit that you engage in regularly, for example:

  • You have a cup of coffee every morning – forgo it and instead drink a glass of water or fruit juice. You may have other cups of coffee during the day or maybe you want to just give up coffee altogether for these five days
  • Don’t want to give up the coffee, but you’d be willing to switch to decaf for five days? Give it a shot
  • What about soda? How about eliminating that for five days, give up all diet sodas as well, that leaves you with plenty of other drinks you can have from coffee to tea to water and fruit juices and more
  • Do you watch television while eating dinner? How about switching it off and eating together at the table?
  • Do you walk at the gym every morning? Why not go for a walk in your neighborhood instead?
  • Eat out for lunch everyday? Consider packing your lunch for the next five days or even making healthier choices for your meals

See, the habits you choose don’t have to be huge or even profound, but by consciously deciding to give up a habit you consider as regular as breathing for five days comes with it’s own inherent challenges. It requires that you give up something that you may not have considered that you could give up before. It may mean adjusting your own attitude and outlook and to honestly evaluate why you do the things you do. I know one family that gave up television at dinnertime and after five days, they didn’t want to turn it back on – they discovered how much they really enjoyed talking to each other over the dinner table.

I know another family that elected to eat together at breakfast rather than grabbing something on the run and that offered them a real opportunity to explore what their day was going to be and even to adjust plans to accommodate each other. So what will you give up this Monday? You just have to give it up for the five days of the week and you’re free to resume whatever that habit was next Saturday, but then again – maybe you won’t miss that habit as much as you may think.

So what will you be giving up to change your habits in five days?

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About Heather Long

Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago. They have a beautiful daughter who just turned five years old. She is learning to read and preparing for kindergarten in the fall. An author of more than 300 articles and 500+ web copy pieces, Heather has also written three books as a ghostwriter. Empty Canoe Publishing accepted a novel of her own. A former horse breeder, Heather used to get most of her exercise outside. In late 2004, early 2005 Heather started studying fitness full time in order to get herself back into shape. Heather worked with a personal trainer for six months and works out regularly. She enjoys shaking up her routine and checking out new exercises. Her current favorites are the treadmill (she walks up to 90 minutes daily) and doing yoga for stretching. She also performs strength training two to three times a week. Her goals include performing in a marathon such as the Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness or Team in Training for Lymphoma research. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience through the fitness and marriage blogs.