Noticing habits

That’s week 1 down! Well done everyone! We loved meeting you and reading your posts this week.

This week – week 1 – we’ve been noticing the practical things that need to be in place to make our challenges successful, we’ve looked at habits, and thought about when we are on autopilot. Building our self-awareness. Many of you commented about the energy it takes to change habits and how you need to think more consciously about what you do.

There are many interesting resources on habits. Charles Duhigg is well known for writing and talking about how habits work: How To Break Habits

Or this is a nice article on the power of self-awareness and its links to habit change and leadership: Why Self-Awareness Is the Secret Weapon for Habit Change

Although it’s not quite the message we are going for, I often think this 80s song about Bad Habits by Australian Billy Fields sums up how hard it can be to change habits. It’s kind of catchy.

But seriously – imagine this on the collective scale. At the moment, we have collective habits that need to change if we want a thriving future for ourselves and the planet, so exploring habits and how to reconcile short-term pleasure/convenience/relief with the long-term results we want to see is important work.

Keep going! We’ll start looking more at the collective in Week 2.

See you on the platform!