Changing Habits In Five Minutes

My current focus is on NAILING my sleep schedule, guaranteeing that I get deep, restful sleep every night. At this moment, the best approach seems to be a combination of Tai Chi/Chi Gong and yoga, with a hot shower.

Integrating it into my overall schedule suggests I expand the “Five Minute Miracle” (sixty seconds of deep slow breathing once every 3 hours). If Brendon Burchard suggests five minutes physical break per hour to maintain maximum efficiency, I can certainly expand the 5MM breaks.

Ten minutes every three hours would do the trick, and if it provides a combination of increased health, increased focus, mental effectiveness and bountiful energy then I’m not stealing time from family or work.

Now…how to do this? How to develop the habit?

Well…I’m thinking out loud here. Bear with me.

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In general, if there is a habit you cannot maintain, it is because you associate more pain than pleasure to its practice. Another way to say that is that you don’t have enough reasons to do it. Not enough fear of the negative potential or love of the positive potential to overcome the inertia or anxiety, or existential terror of shattering the self-image.

Whenever I talk to someone who “knows they should do X” but doesn’t, if I ask them for the reasons NOT to, they have dozens of deep reasons. Why SHOULD they do it? Something vague like “well, my (friend, spouse, doctor) kinda says I should. I guess they’re right…”