Rethinking Habits

You develop habits because they help you. (Even bad habits help you, in ways you don’t want to acknowledge…)

But rethinking habits (even good ones) every so often can be a good thing. You might find that you’ve maintained a habit long after it’s stopped working for you in your current state.

  • A morning writing regimen needed rethinking when my kids were all in school.
  • A semi-regular trip to a warehouse store stopped making sense in the schedule – until it did again, and I reacquired the habit.
  • Weekly grocery runs might not work best on the day you usually do them – should you alter the habit?

It’s now two weeks until New Year’s Eve – that day of resolving to acquire new good habits.

But take a minute or two to rethink the habits you currently have–perhaps some of them don’t work anymore, but you are still doing them habitually.