Fostering Healthy Habits in 2022 - Follow my journey
Habits play a massive part in dictating our health. I want to see how easy it is to make healthy habits (or break unhealthy habits) so I am running an experiment over the course of 2022 (a very long experiment!?!).
During 2022, I am trialing a new healthy habit each month. The aim is for these new habits to be easy to do every day. All can be done in 20 mins or under (or a shorter 5 min version for those days that are crazy busy).
I’ll be testing out whether practicing these habits proactively rather than doing them reactively when feeling stressed, really makes a difference.
It’s the everyday actions that compound to make a difference. If you start having a 20min walk before work every day, then this isn’t going to make a difference next week. But if you did it every day for 6 months, then that is over 60 hours of extra walking that you will have done.
There are many differing views & research on how long it can take to form a habit. & there are many things that can influence it such as:
Your enjoyment of the habit
If you experience benefits of it immediately or do the benefits only appear weeks or months later?
Is it difficult to fit into your life?
Is there a trigger that prompts you to do the habit?
I am going to put this all to the test every month during 2022. I will update you via these blog posts and hopefully you can take away the learnings and find a healthy habit to introduce yourself.
In January, I did yoga every day (for 20 mins or under). In Feb, I introduced more nutrients into my diet by eating green leafy veg with at least 2 meals per day. & in March I am going to journal every day.
I am a bit behind with my blog posts (as you can tell, seeing as this is 2 months late!!). But I will update you as to my learnings with the Jan & Feb habit in the next few weeks.
& let me know if there is a healthy habit that you’d like me to trial in 2022.
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