Choose Your
Habits
Change Your Life
Vicki Davis
@coolcatteacher
You don’t manage your time,
You SPEND it.
How will you spend your habits?
Create launch
routines:
30/30 app
 When you wake up
 When you go to school
 When you arrive back
home
P – rayer
A- ffirmations
V – ision
E – xercise
R – eading
S - cribing (Journaling)
Good Habits: Make it 20 seconds easier to do
Bad Habits: Make it 20 seconds harder to do
Shawn Achor “Happiness expert”
Keystone Habits
1. Make Your Bed
2. Planning
• 40 Days
• Weekly
• Daily
Trusted
Process
Time
Every 90 minutes – MOVE!
Miracle Moment: What I Do at Break
1. Drink Water
2. Eat a Handful of Almonds
3. Do a Plank (or 2)
4. Walk Outside
5. Listen to a Podcast or
Read Something
Set Alarms
To Move
A Personal Attitude Check
A Habit Check
Exercise: Every Little Bit Helps
Joy Journaling
Signature Strength
STUDY
577 volunteers used their signature strength in
one way each day for a week
RESULTS
One month later, they were
happier than before the study!
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2015/03/make-you-happy
Reading/ Learning Habit
Get Rid of Gossip
Gossip
#1 Use of
Verbal Time
of Those
Below the
Poverty Line
Watch Less TV
Heavy TV Viewers
Lower life satisfaction
Higher material wants
Higher anxiety
Children are
2 ½ times happier doing a
hobby than TV
3 times happier doing a sport
than TV
Choose Your
Habits
Change Your Life
Vicki Davis
@coolcatteacher

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