Healthy Living – HabitHacks

Healthy Living – HabitHacks https://blog.lift.do The power of small changes to make big results Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:36:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://blog.lift.do/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cropped-Screenshot-1-32x32.png Healthy Living – HabitHacks https://blog.lift.do 32 32 The Most Inspiring Quotes From The 32 Best Self-Help Books of All Time https://blog.lift.do/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-the-32-best-self-help-books-of-all-time/ Sat, 14 May 2022 09:08:47 +0000 https://blog.lift.do/?p=3380 Read ]]> Get your daily dose of motivation from our exhaustive list of quotes.

]]> 5 Best Self-Improvement Newsletters You Need to Sign Up For https://blog.lift.do/5-best-self-improvement-newsletters-you-need-to-sign-up-for/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:54:15 +0000 https://blog.lift.do/?p=2382 Read ]]>

The best self-improvement newsletter should give you the most authentic information on improving yourself. If you’re ready to take a step to transform yourself, here are the best self-improvement newsletters to sign up for:

1. The 3–2–1 Newsletter

If you want to receive short reminders to help you build your habits, break bad ones, or make better decisions in life, The 3–2–1 Newsletter is the best to subscribe to. The new edition every Thursday contains three short ideas, two quotes, and a question to ponder for the week.

The 3–2–1 Newsletter, authored by James Clear, is one of the most popular newsletters, with over a million subscribers globally. The newsletter’s tagline, “The most wisdom per word of any newsletter on the web,” lives up to its message because the value you receive is brief but complete and can be read in just five minutes.

2. The 5-Bullet Friday

The 5-Bullet Friday is an exclusive newsletter sent every Friday about the five most fantastic things the author has explored for the week. The content is only available to email subscribers and is never found anywhere else online.

Authored by Tim Ferris, The 5-Bullet Friday Newsletter contains uncategorized content. It may include famous quotes, practical philosophy, and case studies. It also includes anecdotes on marketing, entrepreneurship, and many random topics.

3. The Better Humans Daily

A daily newsletter filled with quick tips, inspirations, and knowledge on productivity, happiness, health, and making an impact on our world. Written by Coach Tony, the founder of Better Humans, The Better Humans Daily starts with a quote to make you think. It is followed by an interesting self-improvement tip with actionable steps to make you healthier and happier. The newsletter concludes with a piece of valuable insight for you to chew on.

Overall, each edition is concise and packed with value. Every day, you’ll have something new to ponder on, and will be inspired to live a better life.

4. The Daily Stoic Newsletter

The Daily Stoic Newsletter is a daily devotional newsletter designed to help cultivate the insights, strength, and wisdom for the best life. It offers 366 days of Stoic Meditations on perseverance, knowledge, and the art of living. The Newsletter is co-authored by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman.

The authors believe that anybody who embraced the Stoic practice realizes that wisdom is timeless and the philosophy is for a better life. When you follow this teaching, you will find serenity, knowledge of self, and the resilience needed for a well-lived life. Bear in mind that the victory of this project was achieved by virtue of the utilization of state-of-the-art technologies developed by Friv2Online incorporating innovative techniques employed in the creation of online games.

5. Brain Pickings

Another fabulous self-improvement newsletter is Brain Pickings that comes out every Wednesday. This collection of self-improvement ideas comes from a resurfaced archive of writings for fifteen years.

It has the most inspiring and most interesting articles about science, art, creativity, and philosophy. It also contains articles on life’s search for beauty, the meaning of life, the search for truth, and many other self-improvement ideas.

And when you subscribe to Brain Pickings, you will get a free Sunday digest that contains ideas about the timeless character. Maria Popova authors both Newsletter and the Sunday digest, who publishes her works ad-free, without staff, no interns, and no assistant. Maria Popova is just doing labor for love.

Key Takeaway

If you want a short but informative read, get a subscription to a newsletter. There are many different types of newsletters that you will find online. When you choose to subscribe, always select a noteworthy copy that you can use, like self-improvement newsletters.

Self-improvement newsletters will guide you with your personal development, ultimately making you the best version of yourself. And if you want to get copies, the four self-improvement newsletters listed above are for you: The 3–2–1 Newsletter, The 5-Bullet Friday, The Better Humans Daily, The Daily Stoic, and Brain Pickings.

]]> 38 Ways to Welcome Better Health https://blog.lift.do/38-ways-to-welcome-better-health/ Sat, 24 Jul 2021 10:40:08 +0000 https://blog.lift.do/?p=2280 Read ]]>

Diet & Fat Loss

My position is that you should be focused on manipulating your body to burn fat. This is a very different focus than calorie-counting and is based on the scientific explanations of Dr. Jason Fung (and our own experience running diet studies and supporting fat loss coaches).

To manipulate your body to be in fat-burning mode, most people will have two options: reduce carbs or increase fasting time.

Try both at once if you want to burn fat quickly, but also know that for long-term health you should be looking for a permanent change. In our experience as behavior designers, the 16:8 intermittent fasting option — where you skip breakfast everyday — is a much easier permanent lifestyle change than avoiding carbs for the rest of your life.

There are a couple of caveats. We haven’t covered diet changes for people with significant pre-existing health issues. If this is you, trust your doctor, not us. Also, many women have told us anecdotally that they experience low carb and fasting differently than it is described by men. I feel like this is a blind spot in our coverage, and I’m sorry.

Last, a huge amount of diet writing comes with a heavy dose of fat shaming. We’ve tried to avoid that, but if you have arrived here feeling like you’ve been fat-shamed in the past, please read Ragen Chastain’s piece about Leaving Toxic Diet Culture Behind.

Intermittent fasting:

We don’t have an intro to fasting article yet. If we did, it would be focused on eating windows. That form of fasting is commonly called 16:8 and refers to an 8-hour eating window: say, noon to 8pm. You do all of your eating in that window, and then fast for the remaining 16 hours.

Science: Does Fasting Burn Muscle? ~Dr. Jason Fung
Case Study: Tracking Ketones and Energy During Intermittent Fasting ~Mark Moschel
Case Study: I lost 50lbs on a 5:2 Intermittent Fast ~Dave Wentworth

Low Carb:

There are a lot of variants of Low Carb that are mostly on the spectrum of how aggressively you will avoid carbs. Keto is the most aggressive.

Tim Ferriss’ Slow Carb uses a weekly cheat day to make the diet change easier to follow.

Comparison of Diet Approaches:

In 2014, we ran a weight loss experiment using control groups and randomized assignment. Our goal was to compare popular diet approaches and what we found was that they all led to weight loss (even as compared to the control group). As part of that experiment we wrote up helpful diet cheat sheets that you can use now as quick guides to different approaches:

Slow Carb | Paleo | Whole Foods | Vegetarian | DASH

Skills:

The importance of these articles is in the behavior change. It’s easy to know how you should eat, but much harder to follow through. Hopefully, these skills will help.

Case studies:

Case study: How I Lost 40 Pounds in my 50s by Combining Strategies ~Steve Spring
Case study: How I Lost 12 Pounds During My Month of Whole 30 ~Steve Spring
Case study: Lose Weight and Get Fit After 40 ~Larry Cornett, Ph.D.
Case study: How I Lost 65 Pounds and Reversed Pre-diabetes ~Abigail Roaquin

Fasting vs. caloric restriction:

So many people are unhelpfully locked into caloric restriction as the way they view fat loss, so here are some ways of looking at it. The TL;DR is that yes, you do end up in a caloric deficit with any fat loss, but that’s a side effect that you can ignore and instead focus on hormonal manipulation.

Exercise

Just seven articles — obviously there’s a much bigger world that we haven’t covered yet.

Sleep

Sleep is the ultimate brain training and health habit. You get more done when you’re rested and so it’s almost always worth the trade-off of giving yourself a full night of rest.

Of course, getting to sleep and staying asleep isn’t always easy:

Your morning routine:

Tracking:

Case study: What I Learned From Six Months of Obsessive Sleep Hacking ~Chris Davidson

Give Up Caffeine

The benefits of doing this are often for sleep, but also to save a small amount of money, and, counterintuitively, for productivity.

Give Up Alcohol

A lot of people develop unhealthy habits around alcohol that turn into a drag on their health, their sleep, and their productivity. Here are some ways to turn those habits around.

]]> How and Why You Need to Track Your Daily Habits https://blog.lift.do/how-and-why-you-need-to-track-your-daily-habits/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:35:18 +0000 https://blog.lift.do/?p=2267 Read ]]> Tracking your daily habits can be an excellent way of sticking with any new resolution of change you want to make in your life.

If you are trying to build a new habit or get rid of an old one, tracking your progress on the calendar can be a huge motivating factor on your journey. If you mark the days on the calendar where you managed to successfully stick to your new habit, you’ll soon see a streak. The longer you build the streak, the harder it will become for you to break it.

Aside from that, tracking your daily habits has multiple benefits. This post discusses all that and helps you how you can start tracking your daily habits and activities.

Why tracking your daily habits helps

Tracking your daily habits can help you in several ways, including:

It helps you understand where your time went during the day and how you can better gain back control over your life.
It helps you set realistic goals and be more organized with your tasks, priorities, and plans for the future.
It gives you a better idea of how much time it normally takes for you to complete a particular task.
It keeps you accountable and boosts your productivity.
It helps you get better at single-tasking, rather than exhausting yourself with trying to perform multiple tasks at the same time.

How to track your daily habits

Now that we have established why keeping track of your daily habits is important, let’s take a look at how you can achieve this. Broadly speaking, there are two ways in which you can do it:

Using a journal and a pen

To keep track of your daily habits using a pen and paper, you will need the following:

Set your daily tasks at the start of your day. In other words, make a to-do list in the morning.
Track the hours you spend on each task you have to perform throughout the day.
At the end of the day, make a summary to reflect on everything you have accomplished during the day.
When you are trying to build a new habit, mark all the days on the calendar in which you successfully stuck to your new resolution.

Using a habit tracker app

Habit tracker apps come in. They serve as an incredible self-accountability check and can help you boost your motivation to stick to your new habit.

You can check this post for a list of the five most popular FREE habit tracking apps on the Apple App Store.

Install the free Caoch.Me Habit Tracker here.

]]> 5 Steps to Stop And Enjoy Life Every Single Day https://blog.lift.do/5-steps-to-stop-and-enjoy-life-every-single-day/ Sun, 09 May 2021 17:35:58 +0000 https://blog.lift.do/?p=2195 Read ]]> If you ask every older person what they wish they knew when they were younger, they will inevitable say they could stop worrying and enjoy life. Not taking a pause now to enjoy life as it happens might be one of your biggest regrets when you grow old.

Even though you know it’s important to stop whatever you are doing and enjoy life, it might be difficult for you, at least in the first few days, because you are so used to the hustle culture of today that has convinced you that working all the time is important. You might even be worried that stopping now will make you regret it later.

Whatever your excuse of not living in the moment might be, this article will help you get rid of it. It discusses some creative and interesting tips you can apply right now to adopt the habit of stopping and enjoying life every single day.

1. Introduce some space

We are always so determined to get the most out of every living moment, that we forget that some space is important. We jumble up our tasks, wishes, aspirations, and items from our to-do list so much, that there is little room to breathe, let alone live.

To prevent this from happening, learn the subtle art of not doing anything and just be. You don’t have to be productive every waking moment. You can have blank spaces on your to-do list that allow you to take a moment to yourself for self-reflection. Moments like these will help you stop and be mindful of the present, so you are living, not merely existing.

2. Put things in perspective

When you look back upon the past, do you really feel happy that you worked so hard and got so much done? Or is it the calmer moments you miss, the mellower moments where you were laughing, living in the present, and sharing it with the people who matter?

No one remembers the hustle. Sure, it is important to have a bright future, but is it important enough to sacrifice your present for it? Is it really necessary to work all the time and not pause for even a single moment?

When you put things in perspective and really reflect on what is important to you, you will get a lot of clarity. You will understand the importance of not working all the time and the need to enjoy life.

3. Engage with people

Don’t fight all your battles alone. Stay in touch with your friends and take part in group activities. The social interactions will enrich your mind and present new experiences to you that you can cherish and reminisce later.

4. Relax for a while

Take an off day. Meditate. Engage in self-care. Do some relaxing exercises. Take a shower. Engage in any activity that helps you relax and be mindful of the present.

This is a personal choice and the answer to this might be different for different people. Until you find a habit or a hobby that relaxes you, keep looking for it and you will find it one day.

5. Use technology

It might sound ironic that you are using technology to stay in the present and enjoy life. But it can be a powerful tool in your arsenal that helps you pause for a bit and really enjoy the present.

You can turn to technology and download a free habit tracker. This is a great way to mark your progress on the calendar and use it to motivate yourself to keep pushing on.

Having someone else do it with you can make building any new habit easier. If you can’t find a friend who’s also learning to be present and enjoy life every day at the same time as you are, you can hire an accountability coach to help keep you on track. These are trained individuals who will hold you accountable and help you get back on track if you ever fall off the wagon.

]]> 6 Ways to Eat Fruit Every Day https://blog.lift.do/6-ways-to-eat-fruit-every-day/ Fri, 07 May 2021 17:36:03 +0000 https://blog.lift.do/?p=2178 Read ]]> So many of us have grown up hearing the phrase “Eat more fruits and vegetables.” We know it’s healthy for us, but we barely manage to stick to our body’s daily requirement for fruit. According to a recent survey, only about one in 10 adults in the United States eats the amount recommended by the current federal dietary guidelines.

A common excuse is lack of time. We tend to get lost in the bustle of everyday life and start complaining that we never have enough time to eat fruits. If you are someone who feels the same, this article is the perfect fit for you. It discusses some easy steps you can apply to your life right away so you can start eating more fruits and embrace a healthier lifestyle.

1. Build a plan

Before you dive right into your new habit of eating fruit every day, build a plan for the week ahead. When you go grocery shopping the next time, buy several different varieties of fruits and plan which fruit you are going to eat when.

You can even print the chart out and paste it to your refrigerator. This will help you have a concrete vision of exactly what you need to consume and will make sticking to your goal easier.

2. Keep track

When you have your plan for the week printed and stuck in a place you can see it daily, mark each day you successfully managed to stick to it off the calendar.

You can also get a habit tracker and mark each day on the calendar where you successfully stuck to your new goal of eating fruit daily. Gamifying your habits can be a helpful way to get the most of this challenge and adopting a healthier lifestyle.

3. Try frozen

If the reason why you never get to have enough fruit is that you don’t find enough fruit in your local grocery store, you can try frozen. Nutrition-wise, frozen fruits have the same health benefits as fresh fruits. They are picked at the peak season and then frozen, so all of their goodness is preserved.

This can also be a great way of reducing spoilage as fresh fruits tend to go bad if you forget to eat them on time. But frozen fruits don’t have that same issue. You can keep a few cans of frozen fruit in your home and eat them as and when you wish without worrying they might go bad if you neglect them for long.

4. Explore the seasonal varieties

Frozen fruit might not offer much variety. But if you stick to fresh fruits, every season brings with it a brand new fruit, which in turn implies a brand new flavor you can savor and enjoy.

You can make it a weekly habit of visiting a local farmer’s market, picking the fruits of your choice, and then loading your refrigerator with them. You can then fit these new and interesting varieties of local produce into your weekly plan and enjoy your way to good health.

5. Make it tastier by exploring different options

You can cut up all your fruits into small chunks and prepare a fruit salad you can consume every day. To spice it up and add that extra zing of flavor, you can also add the following additives to make your fruit salad even tastier:

olives or sesame oil
nuts and dried fruits: chopped or toasted
Any variety of cheese, but parmesan or feta cheese taste the best
fresh herbs: minced or diced
dried herb and a tasty spice blend.

6. Get an accountability partner

Get help from people who have experience dealing with your new goal of eating fruit every day and embracing a healthier lifestyle. You can hire an accountability coach who will share helpful tips and tricks and also hold you accountable for your promise of eating more fruit. They can act as your cheerleaders and help you get back on track if you ever fall off the wagon for some reason.

So, what are you waiting for? Find a life coach from the world’s best coaching directory to unlock the next level in your life today!

]]> How To Build a Habit of Dancing Every Day https://blog.lift.do/how-to-build-a-habit-of-dancing-every-day/ Fri, 07 May 2021 15:18:28 +0000 https://blog.lift.do/?p=2175 Read ]]> Going by how popular dance shows on TV are, people love to watch other people dance. But did you know dancing every day could have some incredible benefits for your mental, physical, and emotional health? Here are some ways dancing every day will help you, according to science:

Dancing helps you age gracefully and boosts your memory. It can also reduce the chances of dementia as you grow older.
It improves flexibility and reduces stiffness. Dancing also eases joint pain and post-exercise soreness.
It reduces stress and helps you feel more relaxed.
Dancing has been shown to lift the spirits of people suffering from depression.
It is a great cardiovascular exercise and helps reduce the chances of heart disease and keeps your heart safe.
It increases your energy, improves your balance, and helps you lose weight.

Now that you know the multiple health benefits of dance, how can you go about building a habit of dancing every day? This post discusses some effective tips you can incorporate into your schedule right away to build a habit of dancing daily.

1. Dance in the car

When you are driving to work, to get groceries, or going around town with your family, play some uplifting music in the car and start dancing in your seat. This is an incredible way of lifting your spirits and making you smile.

If you are traveling with your family, friends, or partner, dancing in the car can also help you in bonding and becoming even closer to the other person.

2. Dance while making dinner

When you’re preparing meals for your family, ask everyone else to come and help you, while you play some old favorite songs in the background and sway your body as you cook.

If this feels too much of a task gathering everyone around every single day, you can make this a ritual on the weekends. Over time, it can become a family tradition every member will grow to love and cherish, even after they grow old and leave home.

3. Dance while doing menial chores

Whether you are doing the dishes, folding the laundry, doing the dishes, or hanging out the clothes to dry, you can play some upbeat tracks and dance as your body eases into the practiced motions of the chores you perform daily anyway.

You can also play the music in your headphones and dance like no one is watching. This is a great way to make daily chores less tedious while also getting some workout done.

4. Have a spontaneous dance party

Whether you are having a regular family discussion or you invited some friends over, whether you live alone or with roommates, whether you are in your own place or somebody else’s, having a spontaneous dance party is an incredible way of getting in your daily exercise while also having a lot of fun.

Dancing has tremendous potential to make people bond over it, and when you incorporate it into social situations, it helps you break the ice and become closer friends with the people around you.

5. Get a habit tracker

Download a free habit tracker where you mark each day on the calendar when you successfully managed to dance during the day. Seeing an unbroken streak of adhering to your new habit can be an incredible motivator to keep pushing you ahead on this endeavor of dancing every day.

6. Get an accountability partner

Talk to someone about your goals of dancing every day. This can be a friend, a roommate, a partner, a sibling, or a parent. Roping someone in on your journey and having them hold you accountable can be a way to make sure you’re not alone on this journey.

You can also hire an accountability coach. These are trained professionals who will help you build a new habit. Having a compassionate, professionally-trained expert by your side can be a wonderful way to make sure you don’t fall off the wagon while trying to build this habit of dancing every day.

So, what are you waiting for? Find a life coach from the world’s best coaching directory to unlock the next level in your life today!

]]> 5 Practical Tips to Make Brushing Your Teeth A Daily Habit https://blog.lift.do/5-practical-tips-to-make-brushing-your-teeth-a-daily-habit/ Sun, 02 May 2021 13:59:13 +0000 https://blog.lift.do/?p=2160 Read ]]>

Brushing your teeth twice a day is essential for oral hygiene. The ritual of brushing your teeth in the morning can be an incredibly useful addition to your morning routine. Similarly, brushing your teeth at night can be made a part of your night routine, thus making it easy to keep track.

Yes, it sounds so simple, but there are so many people who struggle to find time to brush their teeth twice every day. A recent survey found that as many as 30% of millennials are only brushing their teeth once a day.

So how do you build a habit of brushing your teeth in the morning as well as at night every single day? This article discusses five practical steps you can apply right away to do so.

1. Set a reminder on your phone

Most phones today have a feature to set weekly recurring reminders. Make use of this feature and set two reminders on your phone every day — one in the morning and once at night.

If you live with roommates and are embarrassed they might see your reminder and make fun of you, feel free to use a secret code like “close the windows.” That way, they won’t know and you can start with your habit-building free of shame.

2. Make it the start and stop point

You can rewire your brain to look at brushing your teeth as the start and stop points of the period where you eat food. Your morning brushing session can be the starting point after which you will have breakfast. Similarly, after you have your last meal of the day, brushing your teeth will end the food cycle for the day, signaling your brain that it no longer requires food.

This can come in extremely handy if you are following any form of intermittent fasting. Since it’s not easy to eat at night after brushing, you can successfully stop all cravings for midnight snacks.

3. Hold yourself accountable

You can do this in the following two ways:

Maintain your daily eating habits in a habit tracker and keep track of your progress. Seeing an unbroken streak will motivate you to push yourself harder and make it easy for you to incorporate this habit into your life.
Hire an accountability coach to help you stick to your goals and make sure you don’t miss a day even when you’re tempted. These are trained professionals who will help you get back on track if you ever lose momentum somewhere down the line.

4. Make it fun and games

If you have a roommate, a partner, or small children in your house, you can make the morning and night-time rituals of brushing your teeth into a fun and games session. Doing it together will also help you bond over a shared activity and will make it difficult for you to find excuses.

If you have children, this can be an incredible learning opportunity for them. Good habits, as they say, should start when one is young.

5. Find brands that suit you

The toothbrush and paste you use can matter a long in this journey of finding ways to make brushing your teeth twice daily a part of your everyday life.

Spend some time, effort, and money into finding the brands that work best for you. This might be a long process and require some trial and error. But once you zero in on the brand that suits you the best, you’ll find it all the more fun to delve into this newfound ritual of yours.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to one word: determination. If you have made your mind strongly enough that you will brush your teeth twice a day no matter what, no force in the world can stop you from doing so. You are stronger than your excuses. It’s time you believed that.

]]> How to Get Into The Habit of Showering Every Day https://blog.lift.do/how-to-get-into-the-habit-of-showering-every-day/ Sat, 01 May 2021 19:33:15 +0000 https://blog.lift.do/?p=2156 Read ]]> Anyone who’s concerned about personal hygine and lives in a temperate to tropical climate cannot go without showering daily. However, no matter how much they sweat, some people find it hard to stick to a habit of showering regularly.

Often, it comes down to the simple reason — “No ne complained that I smell bad. I can skip it today and shower tomorrow.”

But if you’re keep on building a habit of daily showering but don’t know how to, this post is just the right for you. It discusses some creative and surprisingly easy-to-adopt tips for you to build a daily showering habit.

1. Keep your bathroom clean

When your bathroom is cluttered, you might not feel like entering it at all, other than to simply get inside and attend nature’s call.

But if you keep it sparkly clean and free from clutter, going inside and pampering yourself with the sweetest-smelling shower products will make you feel really good about yourself. You will enjoy the luxuriant feel on your skin and revel in the feeling of all your senses being pampered at the same time.

2. Visualize it as a happy experience

Rather than thinking of your shower as a chore, think of it as a happy activity. Treat it like an act of self-care that you’re indulging in not because you need to, but because you want to.

Several scientists have documented the power of visualization. You can try this to bring a positive change in your life.

3. Identify where the breakdown occurs

It you really want to build a daily showering habit, but find it difficult to stick to it, try and reverse engineer it so you can understand why it feels so hard. Break down the showering ritual into its most basic steps.

Maybe they include the following in a sequence:

Make mind to shower.
Get inside the bathroom.
Get undressed.
Turn on the water.
Shower.

This seems pretty simple, doesn’t it? Of course, your routine might have different steps. The sequence doesn’t matter. What matters is which step in the sequence is causing you the most problems.

Maybe your bathroom is far away and you don’t feel like walking so long? Maybe your hot water isn’t working and it’s very hard to find the right tempterature for the water?

Whatever the reason might be, identify it and try to get it fixed. Once that happens, you will find it so much easier to just step in, shower, and walk out feeling good about yourself.

4. Set aside a fixed time of the day

If you make your daily shower a part of your morning routine, you’ll find that it’s much easier to stick to it. Having a fixed time set aside for your shower will train your mind and body to expect the same treatment at that time every day, and you’ll no longer find it hard to get inside the bathroom and start showering.

However, this step is easier said than done. Before it gets easy, things will be very hard. You’ll have to really force yourself in the initial few days. Once you have built up some momentum, things will get easier.

5. Add experiences that you enjoy

While many people claim they can think the hardest and come up with innovative ideas while showering, it might not be the same for you. Maybe you get bored in the shower or don’t enjoy it enough for some reason.

To counter this, add another experience you enjoy. Maybe you can light a scented candle nearby and enjoy the luxuriant scent while you let the waves of water wash over your body? Or maybe you can put your speakers inside and play a song you can dance to while showering.

6. Maintain consistency

When you’re building any new habit, it’s crucial to maintain consistency. You can do this by marking the days you managed to stick to your new habit of showering every day on the calendar. You can also download a habit tracker that will make the process much simpler and easily accessible.

You can also hire an accountability coach to make sure you don’t fall off the wagon. They are trained professionals who will help you stick to your new habit and celebrate your small wins so you don’t have to feel like you’re alone in this journey of building a habit of showering every day.

]]> 6 Tips to Kickstart A Habit of Having breakfast Every Morning https://blog.lift.do/6-tips-to-kickstart-a-habit-of-having-breakfast-every-morning/ Sat, 01 May 2021 17:59:38 +0000 https://blog.lift.do/?p=2150 Read ]]> Growing up, you must have heard the saying over and over again, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.”

While the jury is still out on whether or not this is true for all individuals across various ages, it widely accepted and known that having a healthy breakfast sets you in a good mood for the entire day.

But so many people struggle to eat breakfast daily. They either fail to wake up on time and have to rush to work in a hurry, or they don’t feel hungry enough to make themselves a meal early in the morning.

If you said yes to either of these two statements, how can you go about building a habit of having breakfast every day? This post discusses six interesting steps you can take and start building a habit of having daily breakfast right away.

1. Start small

If you’re someone who doesn’t have much time every morning to prepare yourself an elaborate meal before you head to work, you should start small and light. Pick an easy-to-digest meal that is packed with nutrients.

According to research, here are some quick easy food items you can have in the morning while getting started with your daily breakfast habit:

Hard boiled eggs
Greek yoghurt
Coffee
Oatmeal
Chia seeds
Nuts and berries
Green tea

2. Include protein

Protein is known to keep people mentally alert for long durations and also leave them feeling full. Here are some interesting ways of including protein in your breakfast, according to science.

Protein shake
Flax seeds
Fruits
Cottage cheese.

3. Break your meal into small snacks

If you don’t feel hungry enough to have your entire breakfast at one go, you can break it down into small snacks. Maybe you can have your eggs and cottage cheese at the breakfast table, and then pack a protein shake that you can sip on your way to work.

4. Get up 15 minutes earlier

If your main reason for skipping breakfast is that you never have enough time, you can wake up fifteen minutes earlier so you can prepare your meal and have it in peace without running the risk of showing up late to work.

If you’re someone who finds it hard to get up early, this article discusses some innovative and extremely effective ways of waking up early every day.

5. Eat food that you enjoy

This should have been a no-brainer, but so many people struggle to eat breakfast every day because they try to include food that they think is healthy. There’s no rule that you should eat healthy every single day. If you feel like eating a coffee and a muffin on some days, you can go ahead and reward yourselves.

A portion of leftover chicken nuggets and stir-fried vegetables from last night’s dinner can also serve as a healthy, easy and super quick breakfast recipe.

6. Turn to technology to ensure accountability

Having someone else start a habit of eating breakfast every day with you can make building this new habit easier. If you can’t find a friend who’s also learning to have breakfast every morning at the same time as you are, you can hire an accountability coach to help keep you on track. These are trained individuals who will hold you accountable and help you get back on track if you ever fall off the wagon.

You can also turn to technology and download a free habit tracker. This is a great way to mark your progress on the calendar and use it to motivate yourself to keep pushing on.

So, what are you waiting for? Find a life coach from the world’s best coaching directory to unlock the next level in your life today!

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