Behaviour change

[pollyp1]

Doing some on-line research on behaviour change for an assignment, came across this:

Interestingly, the researchers also found that “missing one opportunity to perform the behavior did not materially affect the habit formation process.” In other words, it doesn’t matter if you mess up every now and then. Building better habits is not an all-or-nothing process.

huffingtonpost.com/james-cl...

Which is nice!

[Irish-John Graduate]

Some of us do tend to think in "All or nothing" terms lol

[pollyp1 Graduate in reply to Irish-John]

Indeed we do!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Oh yes...

[Realfoodieclub Graduate]

Hehe I am all for a bit of grey.😀.

[pollyp1 Graduate in reply to Realfoodieclub]

I'm learning to like it!

[GoogleMe Graduate]

I think one reason C25K works is that you absolutely must not do it every day - which is the way most people start out with their ideas so that the first day they don't do whatever it is gets viewed as 'messing up'

[pollyp1 Graduate in reply to GoogleMe]

Totally - I used to think like that and it's taken a year or two (or more!) to not. I love the concept of resetting the clock.