Styling and Photography by Hudi Greenberger
We’ve all heard the golden rule: zero in on one small change and focus on making it yours. That rule applies to making healthy changes in our lifestyle, too. We’ve talked about focusing on your keystone habit, the one habit that sets other healthy habits in motion, because it helps all your other healthy habits click into place.
Assuming you’re excited about your new commitment, you’ll do great with it… at first. But what happens after a while, when the enthusiasm wears off? How do you make sure that those new changes stick?
Last year, Yaffa Palti and I ran a 30-day challenge about making good habits stick. Yaffa’s ideas work for everything — relationships,
Yiddishkeit, work-life balance — but we used healthy lifestyle changes as our running example.
My personal favorite of Yaffa’s great suggestions was to attach a new habit — in our case, a new healthy habit — to a routine you already do, one that you enjoy and that you’re really committed to. Attaching a healthy habit to a solid routine is the route in to making sure it sticks.
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