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Are You Working to Break Your Routine?
Breaking a routine is hard, but it can be a major impetus for change.
When you have set up habitual ways of doing things, it is tremendously difficult to change them.
You don’t recognize all of your habitual behaviors as habits. When you think of habits, you think of things like smoking, drinking, chewing off our fingernails, and so on. But any routine you do on a regular basis is a habit.
Oftentimes, when you get stuck on the path you are trying to traverse, or having issues with conscious reality creation, you may need to identify and change bad habits.
The thing is, “bad” is a relatively subjective term. Many of the habits you could deem as bad are extremes. Many of your other habits that may seem bad are simply unhealthy, unproductive, often poor behaviors that sabotage your progress or hold you hostage in some way.
Changing your routine takes effort
I have been worked on changing my morning routine more than once. I’ve attempted to get to the gym. There have been efforts to get up earlier and set the coffee maker on a timer every night. I’ve put in the effort to shift away from an old routine of getting up, making coffee, going online, puttering about for an hour or two and then…
