Transform 21 days of Lock Down to 21 Days of Life Changing HABITS

Our Prime Minister – Shri Narendra Modi declared 21 days of Nation-wide lock down to curtain the spread of Corona Virus. As Citizens of India it’s our duty to follow the words of our leader to protect our family and Country.

Since we are the busiest (!) people on this planet, we are worried about wasting 21 days of our time by sitting idle, inside our homes. Apart from spending quality with our family, what can we do in these 21 Days?

Introducing the 21-Day Habit Trial Program. This is a self-initiated program where you stick to a certain habit for 21 days, every day.

The 21-day trial is based on the age-old belief that it takes 21 days to fully form a new habit.

Simple habits such as getting up earlier at a specific hour, exercising each morning before you start out, going to bed at a certain hour, being punctual for appointments, planning every day in advance, starting with your most important tasks each day, or completing your tasks before you start something else. These are habits of medium complexity that can be quite easily developed in 21 days through practice and repetition.

However, habits that require higher level concentration may require more time to automatically form as habit. For example, waking up at 6 am on every day can become a habit within 21 days of repetition, but practicing meditation for 30 minutes every day may require more time to form as a habit as it’s more complex and requires more practice and focus.
According to Brain Tracy, there are 7 easy steps to develop a Habit.

1) Make a Decision

First, make a decision. Decide clearly that you are going to begin acting in a specific way 100% of the time, whenever that behavior is required. For example, if you decide to arise early and exercise each morning, set your clock for a specific time, and when the alarm goes off, immediately get up, put on your exercise clothes and begin your exercise session.

2) Never Allow an Exception to Your New Habit

Second, never allow an exception to your new habit pattern during the formative stages. Don’t make excuses or rationalizations. Don’t let yourself off the hook. If you resolve to get up at 6:00 AM each morning, discipline yourself to get up at 6:00 AM, every single morning until this becomes automatic.

3) Tell Others You Are Practicing a New Behavior

Third, tell others that you are going to begin practicing a particular behavior. It is amazing how much more disciplined and determined you will become when you know that others are watching you to see if you have the willpower to follow through on your resolution.

4) Visualize Your New Habit

Fourth, visualize yourself performing or behaving in a particular way in a particular situation. The more often you visualize and imagine yourself acting as if you already had the new habit, the more rapidly this new behavior will be accepted by your subconscious mind and become automatic.

5) Create an Affirmation

Fifth, create an affirmation that you repeat over and over to yourself. This repetition dramatically increases the speed at which you develop the new habit. For example, you can say something like, “I get up and get going immediately at 6:00 AM each morning!” Repeat these words the last thing before you fall asleep. In most cases, you will automatically wake up minutes before the alarm clock goes off, and soon you will need no alarm clock at all.

6) Resolve to Persist

Sixth, resolve to persist in the new behavior until it is so automatic and easy that you actually feel uncomfortable when you do not do what you have decided to do.

7) Reward Yourself

Seventh, and most important, give yourself a reward of some kind for practicing in the new behavior. Each time you reward yourself, you reaffirm and reinforce the behavior. Soon you begin to associate, at an unconscious level, the pleasure of the reward with the behavior. You set up your own force field of positive consequences that you unconsciously look forward to as the result of engaging in the behavior or habit that you have decided upon.

Hope you will use these 21 days of Lock Down to 21 days of Habits Formation.

Wish you all the best and please fell free to share your feedback on your new journey.