{"id":3896,"date":"2022-01-03T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2022-01-03T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T14:01:31","slug":"a-new-habit-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2022\/01\/03\/a-new-habit-for-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Habit for the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Changing Your Team From The Inside<\/a> chapters end with an activity for the readers to try. The exercise suggested at the end of the first chapter, titled Be The Change<\/a>, is the Best Possible Self<\/a>. When you follow the last link, you can learn how to do the activity and why you should absolutely try it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to the newsletter from the Greater Good Science Center<\/a> of the University of Berkeley, I was reminded of the activity. A newsletter you may want to subscribe to. You may even want to follow their flagship course on The Science of Happiness<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you have a more optimistic vision of the future, you are more likely to take the necessary steps to get there, which means installing new habits in your days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, in the new year post<\/a> for this blog, I talked a little about willpower, bringing back the previous new year post<\/a>, mentioning Kelly McGonigal’s book The Willpower Instinct<\/a>. Let me do it once again. Being harsh when you miss a day or a commitment, especially when you want to take on a good habit or quit a bad one, triggers guilt, which pushes you to seek comfort. Comfort you may want to find in the very thing you are trying to stop doing. In short: be kind with others and with yourself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of habits, maybe you want to make a new habit of listening to exciting podcast episodes? What about you start listening to Creatures of Habit<\/a>, another great episode of Hidden Brain<\/a>, a podcast by Shankar Vedantam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n