Everyday we are surrounded with triggers to take certain actions which are external such as sound sight
smell or internal sensations that sparks this desire in order to make a permanent change.
You need to fully understand when and why these triggers occur we can easily do this by recording this
information first location where you are.
Second time the exact time when you felt that desire.
Mood your emotional state and what you're thinking for if people who is with you and who is around you
and five action what to do just do what you're currently doing.
The key to this exercise is repetition.
Focus on recording these five data points in the first few weeks of the new habit change.
Do this for at least a week and you will see a pattern to your behavior.
Looking back at my case study at my example let's say you are trying to decrease your cigarettes to
smoke on the surface it might look like a normal activity but this habit has led to a number of problems.
Arguments at home decrease productivity and also decrease your health.
Now you realize that this is a serious issue.
After carefully analyzing you notice these five patterns that stand out.
First location the cafeteria from your workplace.
TIME 10 a.m..
Mood.
Stressed out nervous anxious people with your colleagues.
Matt Andrew and Jane action debating about the latest decision of your manager.
Your goal is to minimize the consumption of cigarettes.
After tracking this habit for a few weeks you realize that the problem most often occurs when you are
stressed out and you feel like hanging out with your colleagues and gossiping.
By analyzing this triggers you'll now know that your smoking of cigarettes is caused by a desire to
feel relaxed and reduce stress.
And more importantly it's an activity you prefer to share with our people who have the same habit coming
to our example this is one trigger for my desire to check my cell phone location in Bed Time 6 4 p.m.
to 7 for 2 AM mood board weak on energetic thinking about what happened on Facebook last night.
People all a little action just woke up.
As you can see I felt this desire to see how things were going on Facebook right in the first moment
when waking up when this moment normally needs to be dedicated to some kind of routine away from electronics
such as meditation.
In the next lesson we are going to analyze different routines we can take to break our bad habits.
Thank you very much and see you there.