Build a Habit and Change Your Identity with Ronnie Loaiza
40% of your day is made up of habits. What do your habits add up to? The good news is you can morph a bad habit into a good habit, or you can create a new habit. Habit Coach Ronnie Loaiza shows us how habits serve us better than hacks.
When you are creating a habit, work on one thing at a time. Creating a habit is about creating part of your identity. It starts to feel weird if you don’t do something. Ronnie shows us how habits can stick without getting us stuck in rigidity.
And you can create new habits at any stage of life … it’s not too late for you.
We talk about:
- Starting with times you felt fulfilled when you are thinking about purpose or what’s next
- Living what you love to do
- Committing to and declaring your purpose — whatever actually doing it looks like
- Starting with the lowest most minimal thing you will stick with
- Being set in your ways but not being stuck there
- Taking away things that hinder you and adding in things that support you in new habits
DOABLE CHANGES
At the end of every episode, we share three doable changes, so you can take what you’ve heard and put it into action. Action is how change happens.
Often we feel like our actions have to be huge to match the bigness of our desires, but we have seen over and over and over again that the little things add up. By stacking up a series of Doable Changes, you will create that big change that you crave. Choose the one that really resonates with you this week and really make it part of your life.
Here are Three Doable Changes from this conversation:
- SET YOUR MINIMUM. Set the very minimum you will do. One glass of water. Five minutes of exercise. One line in your journal. Starting with a minimum makes it easier to do the thing while you are getting used to it. Then even when the habit is created, when something happens to take you out of it, you can keep the muscle strong by doing the minimum.
- CREATE A SUCCESS ZONE. When you are trying to set a new habit, take away things that will get in your way and add in things that will support you. If you are trying to drink more water, you might get rid of juice or soda and add in something to keep water cold. If you are trying to have less distractions in bed, you might take the TV out of your room or charge your phone in another space and add a white noise machine or blackout curtain.
- CELEBRATE. We don’t celebrate enough. Announce that you are doing the thing and then that you’ve done it. It helps your brain notice and that helps build the habit.
ABOUT RONNIE
RonnieLo Habit Coach, also known as Ronnie Loaiza (Low-eye-zuh), helps you create easy, doable habits that drive you to your goals without unsustainable hacks or exhausting willpower. Both Ronnie’s coaching and life experience show that hacks and quick fixes are temporary and lead to burnout. Instead, she focuses on natural, innate habits that work without fatigue. Translating cutting-edge behavioral science into tailored actions, Ronnie guides you in creating tiny habits and transforming your ‘Habitual Way of Thinking. This process reprograms you through small actions that evolve into positive habits, that you align with your values and link to your identity. A Certified Habit Coach, Master Certified Professional Life Coach, and Certified Personal Trainer, Ronnie offers pragmatic, science-based guidance with support, and celebrative accountability! Beyond coaching, Ronnie enjoys dancing, movies, strength- training, traveling, and cuddling with her hubby, cats, pillows and just about anyone!
