Sharon Gam, Ph.D. on MSN

Building Healthy Habits: How Habits Work

If you’ve ever tried to change a behavior, you know it can be a struggle. Despite your best intentions, you may still have a ...
Building healthy habits is all about getting informed, figuring out what you want to change, setting goals to put those ideas into action, and being consistent. It’s simple enough, but as with ...
What gets measured gets improved is the whole idea behind habit tracking. If you’ve ever struggled with implementing a new habit, from drinking more water to getting eight hours of sleep, tracking ...
Humans are habit forming. Some of those habits come from our parents: brushing our teeth each morning and night. Some come from our age: staying up late or procrastinating on our homework. Some come ...
Everyone has habits built into their day. Think of getting up in the morning and stumbling to the kitchen for a cup of coffee, or getting home after work to wind down with a good book. Repetition ...
Habits have been described as repeated actions that arise from some kind of internal or external trigger (Robbins & Costa, 2017). Often, these habits exist in particular contexts. For example, Billy ...
There is a concept in chemistry known as activation energy. Here’s how it works: Activation energy is the minimum amount of energy that must be available for a chemical reaction to occur. Let’s say ...