Healthy Habits Vocab

When we recognize that a behavior improves our life, we work on doing it regularly.

When we recognize that a behavior has negative effects on our life, we work on eliminating it.

A process that trains our brains to do the same thing over and over again.

What prompts a habit loop to start. It can be anything that reminds us of doing the habit, like a certain feeling (which could be emotional or physical), a time of day, a place, people you’re with, what you did just before – or some combination of those things.

The action of the habit.

What we get out of doing the habit or why we like it. It’s what keeps us even doing habits that we want to crush.

What follows the satisfaction in habits that we want to crush. It’s why we want to crush or change the habit.

Repeatedly putting off something you know you need to get done

Getting immediate pleasure

Doing what’s important before doing what’s fun