{"id":1646,"date":"2019-11-18T16:08:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2019-11-18T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:09:22","slug":"make-habit-break-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/make-habit-break-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a habit\/break a habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC5577-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC5577-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC5577-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC5577-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If youre trying to help yourself (or those you serve), the most effective thing you can do is create long-term habits. They become unseen foundations of who we will become.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of running a marathon in six weeks is audacious, but its not a habit. You might succeed, but with all that pressure, its more likely youll simply abandon the project.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the goal of running to the mailbox (at least) and back for 50 days in a row is the sort of habit that might stick.<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for education (we do flashcards every day is very different from I need to cram to learn quantum mechanics for the test.)<\/p>\n<p>And it goes double for our lifestyles. If you can replace a bad habit with a good one, youll live with the benefits for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is to set up systems that are likely to create habits, not sprints that lead to failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If youre trying to help yourself (or those you serve), the most effective thing you can do is create long-term habits. They become unseen foundations of who we will become. The goal of running a marathon in six weeks is audacious, but its not a habit. You might succeed, but with all that pressure, its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[2484,2503,2488,2493,2505,2495,2507,2479,2483,2486,2498,2490,2502,2496,2478,2482,2492,2480,2499,2500,2494,2491,2506,2489,2481,2497,2485,2487,2504,1529,2501],"yst_prominent_words":[2587,745,2449,875],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}