How to Change Habits to Change Your Life In The Next 30 Days

By M. William Hall

Are any of these habits draining your energy, straining your relationships and sucking the life out of you?

* Overeating or stress eating
* Procrastinating
* Smoking
* Drinking too much
* Spending too much money
* Stressing out
* Being a workaholic
* Watching too much TV
* Being chronically late
* Obsessed with online games
* Negative thinking
* Losing your temper
* Neglecting your health
* Neglecting your family
* Compulsive shopping
* Or any of hundred of other self-sabotaging habits?

Then you're ready for How to Change Habits to Change Your Life In The Next 30 Days.

The first goal is to break your “blueprint” into three comprehensive areas:

1. What are negative and positive habits?

2. How are habits formed? How can they be changed, replaced, or eliminated?

3. Tested techniques to support your mental blueprint. Well-structured plans will help you accomplish the changes you desire.

The second goal is to take you through explicit step-by-step actions to alter your behavior patterns, and to provide the techniques and tools to literally change your life in the next 30 days!

• Language: English
• Publisher: LaurenzanaPress
• Release date: Jul 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781937918514

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HOW TO CHANGE HABITS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS

M. William Hall

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Table of Contents

Introduction

1. What is a Habit?

• Defining a Habit

• Comparative Definitions

2. A Habit’s Life Cycle

• Birth of a Habit

o Classical Conditioning

o Operant Conditioning

o Positive Reinforcement

o Negative Reinforcement

• Life of a Habit

o The Cue, the Routine, the Reward

• Death of a Habit

o Managing or Replacing a Habit

o Eliminating a Habit

- Positive Punishment

- Negative Punishment

3. Recognizing Your Habits

• Narrative Reports

• Time Sampling

• Event Sampling

• Checklists

• Outside Observer

4. Analyze This!

• Six Stages of Recognizing and Changing a Habit:

o Stage 1 – Precontemplation

o Stage 2 – Contemplation

o Stage 3 – Determination

o Stage 4 – Action

o Stage 5 – Maintenance

o Stage 6 – Termination

• Four Keys to Success

5. Behavior Modification

• Extinguishing Bad Habits

o Eliminating Cues (Triggers)

o Using Punishments

• Gaining New Habits

o Creating Through Cues

o Creating Through Rewards

6. Make a Contract with Yourself

7. Daily Strategy

• Daily Goals

• Right Attitude

• Reward Yourself

• Use Support Systems

• Reasonable Goals

• Document Change and Setbacks

8. An Alternative Subliminal Approach

• What Does Subliminal Approach Mean?

• Choose the Right Tools for the Job

• Guidelines for Listening

Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

Humans are habitual by nature. Habits consume the majority of people’s days such as brushing teeth every morning and night, to more complex habits like how they drive or parent their children.

Good or bad habits play a significant part in your life. For example, if you didn’t develop good eating habits when you were young, chances are you