How to Change Your Routine for Healthy Habit

How to Change Your Routine to Develop Healthy Habits

By Amela Sandra Dzurlic
Dates published and updated 6//2017-07/2021

How to Change Your Routine

Let us begin, this is exactly how I, a person with a clinical disability applies mindfulness to, mindfulness moment is a term that I used to identify mindful moments similar to that of Barbara Fredrickson, Sharon Salzberg and Susan Anderson, all of whom are prominent women in noelle holistic psychology. A mindful moment is any given moment in which there is a realization that what you are doing and what you are feeling are in harmony. 

Mindfulness is important.

This is a formal, Self-Check-In 

Instructions — Close your eyes, sit like a pretzel and bring awareness to your daily activities and ask yourself: 

• what do you notice about yourself now that you are paying close attention? Maybe you were never aware that you’re a morning person. Maybe you didn’t know that you need fifteen minutes each morning to transition from waking up to getting ready to get out of bed before thinking of what you’re going to wear or how you’ll begin your day. Maybe you need some time to reflect on what you’ve dreamt of this morning.

Your Routine Can Reflect Your Habits

Whether a person does or does not notice their own routine and habits, observing yourself should bring awareness to your routine. Some believe that a routine is a reflection of your habits, after all habits are not a formula for developing a vaccine. A habit is simply defined as a settled regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up—an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary — as defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary.
A routine is a sequence of actions regularly followed. The difference here is, being mindful of your daily habit and making this productive habit into a routine.

Journal Prompt

Questions to Consider When Evaluating & Revising Habits

What habits make your day productive?
What habits make you feel successful at the end of the day?
What habits make you feel accomplished?
What habits make you more professional?
What habits help you accomplish your goals better?
What habits keep you calm?
What habits help you feel like you’re in control?
What habits are healthy for your overall health?

Journal Prompt

Questions regarding long-term effectiveness

Which habits will get you closer to accomplishing your monthly goals?

Which habits will get you closer to achieving your yearly goal?

Which habits are taking up your time?

Which habits are wasting your time?

Which activities are no longer productive?

Which activities require assessment?

How to Implement Habits into Your Routine

As you begin assessing your habits using mindfulness and/or mindfulness journaling, you’ll notice that there are somethings you do that are much more urgent and other tasks that are much less urgent. Having a routine requires being organized. 

From my own personal recovery, I urge you to use a planner or a planning system such as a journal, a book of agendas, and be punctual and reliable. To be consistent is to keep yourself organized until your habit becomes a routine. Making changes may not be easy for you. Following a structure that is new and settled for you may not be easy. However, like most changes in life, a change will always occur whether it is a choice or not. This is a decisions-based revising, pruning and updating of the activities that serve you well or no longer serve you well. Every season a tree lets go of its old leaves and repairs itself internally with nourishing, releasing of toxins and seeping their roots in deeper as they grow and search for more nutritious soil to help them thrive and sprout in the spring. This is a process in life, life can be lived in cycles or stages and phases. Whatever you want to be and who ever you are as an individual you create yourself and your habits then certainly are a reflection of who you are, and what you do.

Doing what you’ve always wanted to do but never had time to do:

• Working out

• Wake up earlier

• Make my own cup of coffee

• Bring my own cup

• Complete tasks efficiently

• Painting as a hobby

• Meeting new people

• Joining a support group

• Creating healthy social skills

• Learning appropriate and inappropriate self-expression

• Speaking well

• Writing well

• How to use chopsticks correctly or the many ways of eating with chopsticks

• Completing a project before the deadline

• Searching for a job or a new job

• Professional development

• Time to meditate

• Time to sit down and read a book

• a dedicated time to journal my journey to recovery and interpersonal healing 

• Take care of chores at home

• Different way of throwing out trash

• New cleaning products for kitchen and bathroom

• Dusting and vacuuming more often

• Making my own juice

• Learning how to cook healthier meals

• Money management

• Resolving unpaid debt

• Seasonal closet cleaning

• Donate unwanted or unused products

Discuss these changes with your therapist or share your success with a peer support to celebrate your accomplishments.

Key Points of Creating a Productive Day-to-Day System

• time

• value

• purpose

• passion

More literature and worksheets in relation to the content of this blog-post

• Change Plan Worksheet

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Amela Sandra L.L.C.

April 2021

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