Day Thirteen: Create and connect; Familiar Spaces

 Day Thirteen: Create and connect; Familiar Spaces

The key to consistency and habits is creating the familiar.

Our brains love the familiar. Why?

Familiar is predictable. And if we can predict an outcome of a behaviour or action, we are establishing both safety and a neuropathic . A neuropathway of sequences that makes the action more efficient for the brain to execute requires MUCH less energy to perform. And boom! You found your "ease" in the doing and it doesn't seem like or feel like "hard" work, or "work at all. It becomes effortless.

In order to make something automatic (autonomous) and effortless in execution, we need to input over 100,000 reps of action into practicing it.

Currently, the Jumpstart exercise program is laid out to perform the exrercises stretched out over 4 times during the day. Technically, it's enough exercising for one solid workout, but in branching it off into separate workouts throughout the day, you get 4 times as many input for your capability and capacity in which you can perform exercise.

What thing do you do often throughout your day?

Drinking water IS a multiple input opportunity to build up the mental "muscle" and habit in throughout your day.

I check my messages throughout the day. So, what if I PAIRED checking messages with taking in some water? Or...

 I eat multiple times a day. What if I paired doing one of the quick workout sets BEFORE having a meal or consuming something? 

The last example is what I did when I began my weight loss/fat loss journey back in 2007. I would pair nutrient intake with working out. This is where pre and post workout meals come in.

And after doing some research, I have discovered that lemon water contributes in detoxing the body of heavy metals.

So now I am going to coonect this positive benefit to drinking lemon water first thing each day and also connect it by PAIRING it with my morning quiet time routine.

Now I have created an more automatic and familiar practice to a new action. And I can make it even more familiar by adding the drinking of this water, which I was ALREADY in the practice of preparing and drinking each morning, by imagining and remembering it as an already familiar practice...and BOOM! I am drinking lemon water each day as an "already established" and effortless familiar and safe practice.