We all have lots of habits.
Many of them we do, without any conscious recognition that we are doing them or that we do them habitually every day.

Many of these habits we have would be labeled as “bad habits” or ones that no longer serve us in a positive way.

Breaking these “bad habits” is a big focus with people especially at the beginning of a new year or a new decade.

But breaking them is hard right?
That’s what we tell ourselves, that’s what the conversations around the office or coffee shop generally focus on early in the year…

Don’t bother with the time or energy to try and break your “bad habits”!
It’s 2010, a fresh decade in the beginning of a new year try something new- Let your focus be about what inspires you.

Focus on what would put more spring in your step, a hum of anticipation in your blood, or a sparkle in your eye… Then choose a new way of doing things or thinking or taking action… your new Inspired Habit- on purpose.

It usually takes thirty days to get a new habit into the rhythm of our lives. So when we choose something that comes from what inspires us from our core it gives us more juice to focus on it and make it a habit quickly.

One thing that will be helpful to you will be to make it more of a feeling process rather than a thinking and trying to remember process.

What you are focused on inspires you- it makes you feel good, it gives you energy, it opens you to more possibilities…

All of those things your new inspired habit gives you when you think about it or take action on it. Instill certain feelings within you.Use those as your guide to show you that your focus remains on the new choice of habit you have made.

Don’t try to forget or ignore or stop doing the other “bad habits”. Because when you do that they become larger for you. They take up your focus and compel you to put your energy towards them.

Instead, keep turning your focus towards the feeling energy of your inspired habit. When you do that all of the people, places, circumstances, and events start to dovetail nicely into that focus.

You are weaving a new fabric into You, a new habit, an inspired one that you chose on purpose.

Because of that the threads that make up the new fabric of your life have many different colors, textures, lengths, and qualities. None of them is too small to discount.  Each is part of the new inspired habit.

In this way when you focus on the feelings, the new frequency that your inspired habit resonates with. You are ingraining the habit deep into the rhythm of your life and it becomes what you focus on without any real effort.

Take this next week to choose a new inspired habit on purpose. Let me know what the new frequency of your inspired habit feels like.