We really are creatures of habit.

We have daily and weekly routines. Monday to Friday. Saturday and Sunday. And that’s just the start of it.

When it comes to what we do, when and, perhaps, with whom we rarely think why.

Give your current habits and routines a bit of an overhaul for the new year. They might have worked well for last year. This is a new year with possibly new goals or circumstances to consider.

Allow yourself to consider:

• Work colleagues and meetings: when do these happen, what is their purpose, who attends, why these attendees, what do we need to share and know from others
• Work/career: what is it about where I currently work that keeps me here, inspires me, challenges me, grows me and my career path?
• Social activities/Friends: who do we see and when, in what environments do we meet, how does knowing them make me feel, who is a positive force for me and who is not, which social activities relax, encourage and improve me?
• Eating: what do we eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, in between these times as well as late evening, what planning do we do of our meals, how frequently do we shop for fresh food (not ready meals or freezer food but real buy me, use me or bin me food)
• Exercise: what exercise do I do and when? what am I looking for from my exercise? am I achieving what I want?
• Living space: am I happy in my living space? does it comfort me, relax me, protect me and inspire me? Am I swamped in clutter or am I able to find what I want when I want it? Why am I holding on to certain items? how do I use my living space?

Food for Thought: A Few Habit & Routine Quotes to Inject into 2016

 Thought: Regularly allowing ourselves  space to step back and to understand why  we do what we do. Recognise where it’s  working and congratulate  ourselves because it is working! Where it’s  not working, analyse it and  define what  needs to change. You will  know what that  is. The truth to a situation is closer to the  surface than it seems when we give  ourselves that dedicated  time to reflect

 Thought: Before we know it habits  embed themselves. Without recognising  what influence they play in what we do, we  either continue with what we’ve been  doing unaware of the increasing burden  or we rise to the knowledge and  challenge of change. Both is  difficult. Yet  with awareness and purpose difficulty can  be the good pain of  betterment

 Thought: What a perfect roadmap! Here  we have it spelled out for us. How what we  think formulates what we do. Conversely,  see this as a framework of reversing  a way across the stepping stones of how  we got to where we are now