Developing New Healthy Habits in the New Year

While a great shift from simply making a resolution that you know you won’t keep, a problem still exists. Actually implementing new behaviors and setting up successful systems to support that behavior seem to be the missing link between starting and maintaining that new healthy habit you’ve committed to. Changing behaviors really is a process that involves a sort of planning in advanced. You have nine mental process that you must go through when changing a behavior, and six actual stages in the implementation of the change.