Use Your Calendar to Form Good Habits

Sunday, August 30, 2015

CalendarRecently Stephanie Lee blogged some really useful tips on using your calendar more effectively to form good habits. You can read the full article here. These habits can be personal (like exercising) or professional (read ABS InfoLink each fortnight). Whatever they are, Lee has some very handy tips to use your calendar to help.

The major parts of the article are as follows, and under each are specific tips and ideas to help make it work. It is worth the time to read the full article and take on board the finer details. Here are the major points of the article:

  • Break down the habit
  • Figure our time and frequency
  • Add the main action item to your calendar
  • Tips for when you ignore calendar alerts
  • Help to drive the habit home
  • Have patience

This last point was particularly interesting. In it, Lee refers to the common understanding that to make a new habit stick it takes 21 days. This is not actually the case, as shown in research undertaken in 2009 and referred to by Lee, which discovered it takes anywhere from 18 – 254 days to make a habit stick.

So what are you going to do today to begin a new habit?

The Avondale Business School can advise your organisation on being effective in these areas – find out how by contacting Warrick Long at the Avondale Business School.

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