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Shocking Development in Behavior Change

September 16, 2014 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

According to a university study, approximately 40 percent of our daily actions are habits; unconscious routines we do by rote.

Asleepwalking-mant first, I had trouble believing that. Yet, consider a typical day. Unless it’s an unusual occasion, such as vacation or maybe weekends; you wake up at approximately the same time. You are either a “breakfast eater” or you’re not; habit number one. Should you be of the former category, your morning repast will consist of the same basic items it does every other morning, despite the fact that the average grocery store offers over 40,000 choices from which you can choose.

If you commute to your job, you depart at the same time, most likely down to the minute, traveling the same roads, arriving at the same location, even parking in the same space. Upon arriving, you greet co-workers with the same banter, perform the same tasks, take lunch at the same time (at the usual restaurants), order the same meals, and head home at your regular time.

Yet, that’s not all.

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Filed Under: Diet, Excuses, Habits, Health, Newspaper Column, Weight Loss Tagged With: accelerometer, diet excuses, excuse, excuses, exercise, habit change, no more excuses, pavlok, technology diet

Unplugged: Getting Back to What Matters Most

May 3, 2011 by Featured Author

It’s time to take back some time. I’ve lost irretrievable time – sucked away into the black hole of technology. Of course, it’s my fault for not managing it better but I am claiming it back. Starting today, Mother’s Day until Father’s Day I am going cold turkey. No Facebook, no Twitter, no personal email and no other social media of any kind during this time. While I THINK there are some business benefits, I haven’t realized enough to warrant the estimated 4-6 hours a week I spend on it – hours I’ll now spend doing other things. Of course, there are some benefits of social media and technology but I think there is a great deal of time suck too. There are three things that inspired my action to go on a technology diet Sabbatical (which also includes a diet from the codependency I have with my cell phone). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, family, Guest Author, Habits, Inspiration, mental health, Motivation Tagged With: codependency, crackberry blackberry, family and friends, fathers day, hectic pace, mothers day, oprah, phone zone, technology diet

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