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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