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Be a Habit Change Detective
the crime of New Year’s resolutions
It was a dark and stormy night in a city that never sleeps. No one was sleeping because it was New Year’s Eve.
The scene of the crime was a picture of brutality, littered with fast food wrappers, wine bottles, and crouching in a corner was the perpetrator and the victim, the same person. He was dressed in running shorts and shoes, cradling his cell phone and scrolling through the infinite feed on Reddit or Facebook, Insta or Snap.
A violent, icky scene.
OK. Maybe it isn’t that icky, but our job is to be the gumshoe, to suss out the truth, to answer the questions, to fashion an alternative, and to find a way to jail some of these habits for good.
So let’s get to it.
One writer who provided a wonderful infographic about habits and habit change is Charles Duhigg. His book, The Power of Habit, is one of those story-filled, insight-rich reads that will shock you with how much Target knows about you but also give you some tools to help you change some habits that may be troubling you.
In my work as a therapist, especially with children, I will often encourage them to be a private eye of a sort, using some of these same methods.
