Your New Habits

Remember those 2025 New Year's Resolutions that you made on January 1st? How are they coming? Hopefully, they are working out as planned, but if they are not, don’t worry. It takes more than just making the goal for you to stick to it. Committing is the first and easiest step. The next steps are implementing the plan to meet the goal. We need to form new and healthy habits to achieve the goals we have set. 

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen." - Michael Jordan 

Kids need new habits to achieve different results; after all, to do the same thing and expect different results is the definition of insanity. New habits equal new outcomes. How do we acquire these new habits? 

We need a disrupter. A disruptor is something we do to interrupt or prevent ourselves from doing the same thing again. For Example: Stick a blue piece of tape above a light switch. Each time you see the tape, it will remind your kids to do a 360 and see if their clothes are picked up off the floor. Instead of rushing out the door, you’ve introduced a disrupter in the common pattern of rushing and being in a hurry and leaving an untidy room.

For basketball, get into a triple threat every time you get the ball. This teaches patience and play recognition and eliminates the  “Dribble First” mentality. Adding a disrupter to the “Common Behavior” skyrockets results.