Associate your good habit with a reward #shorts

21 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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Short advice from TJ Walker urging people to reward themselves when they successfully perform a new good habit to reinforce it. He recommends simple, non-counterproductive rewards (e.g., a smile, a high five, a little dance) so the brain associates the habit with a positive outcome and is more likely to repeat it; he labels this approach the 'TJ Walker habit.'

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If you do something horrible, you lose your life savings. You get in a car crash because you're drinking, chances are you're going to beat yourself up a little, right? Well, the opposite is true as well. When you do something well, when you successfully accomplish a good new habit, you need to give yourself a reward because you want more of it. Now, I don't mean a chocolate sundae just because you went to the gym. That would be counterproductive. But you've got to give yourself a reward. Do a little dance, give yourself a high five, snap your fingers, smile. Do something. Give yourself a reward. Anytime you're trying a new good habit and you've done it once to increase the odds, you do it again. And so that your body, your mind, your brain associates this good habit with a reward, please follow the TJ Walker habit.