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Episode 91 - How to shift bad habits or change behaviors

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Most of us have one or more behaviors we would like to shift. Some things may be harder to shift than others. In this episode we examine this topic through the Needs Lens and we explain how the driving force behind our undesirable behaviors are unmet needs and how to start shifting them through awareness and choice.

In this episode, we cover…

  • How most people do not understand what is at the root of a bad habit
  • How a bad habit is either meeting one or more needs (in an unsupportive way) or masking them
  • How we keep repeating the undesirable behavior because it feels better than not doing it in the short term. However, this stops those unmet needs to be addressed and met
  • How unmet needs are uncomfortable at best and painful at worst
  • How the unmet needs might keep dragging you back to the unwanted behavior or other unwanted behaviors until it is met in a nourishing way
  • How some people may stop the bad habit when the consequences outweigh the benefits
  • How some people will shift from one bad behavior to another due to the underlying unmet need
  • How if we want to change behavior in a meaningful way we need to identify what the unmet needs are and find different, supportive ways to meet those needs
  • How our needs are the driving force behind our thoughts, actions behaviors, feelings and choices
  • Why it's important to get to the place where the need driving the bad habit moves out of being unmet to begin shifting that behavior
  • The importance of recognizing which need is unmet and the point where a behavior is not meeting the need any more but compromising it (or other needs) further
  • Why not all “bad” habits are bad for us
  • A reminder that there is a difference between the need and the preference of how we get the need met
  • How it’s not possible to meet all your needs in a green spectrum way all the time
  • How behavior change is not always about bad habits but also about positive change
  • How to create change you don’t only have to want it, you have to want it more than the undesirable behavior
  • Why visualizing the change we have in mind without taking action can be a bad habit in itself
  • How we need a plan to implement the change in behavior we want
  • The importance of meeting our unmet needs in a supportive and nourishing way so that they don’t pull us back into our bad habits

    • Episode references:

    Episode 3 - I need to do WHAT?T

    he episode where we explain the red/green spectrum is Episode 34 - Self Worth Series: The difference between self worth and confidence

    The little wins episode is Episode 89 - What to do when you’re REALLY struggling…

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