BRX Pro Tip: Getting Rid of Bad Habits – Eliminate the Triggers
Stone Payton: And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, you’ve got a great tip for getting rid of bad habits. Share it with us, if you will.
Lee Kantor: Yeah. You know, I’m kind of a nerd when it comes to learning about behavioral change and habits. And I’ve read a lot of books by a lot of different folks about how to leverage habits to help you rather than kind of fall victim to the bad habits that a lot of people have. But one of the things I’ve learned is that, if you’re trying to get rid of a bad habit, it’s so important to get rid of the trigger that happens right before the behavior that you’re trying to get rid of a curse.
Lee Kantor: So, for example, whenever you see a cookie, you eat a cookie. If you know that’s going to happen, if there’s junk food in your house, and you see it, then you eat it. Then, if you just hide the cookie or hide the junk food and don’t make it easy to see it, then you’re going to be less likely to eat it.
Lee Kantor: So, if you know that a certain thing causes you to slip and do something that you, ultimately, don’t really want to do, then try to do things that eliminate that trigger. So, if you don’t do the thing that happens right before the behavior, then the behavior won’t happen. So, think about it in those terms of trigger and then behavior. So, remove the trigger, gets rid of the behavior.
