Use this five-step process to change your habits in 2024

As business owners and leaders, how we manage our own behaviour is central to our productivity and growth. That’s why I want to share with you some ways of modifying your habits, which might mean starting some behaviours and stopping others.

Now, while there’s no magic bullet for behaviour change, there are ways to approach it systematically to give you the best odds of success. Let’s run through five strategies and when to use them.

Swapping

To stop a behaviour, our best approach is to crowd it out with an alternative. Nature abhors a vacuum and so does behaviour change. If we don’t replace what we stop, it’s all the more likely we will revert to our old ways.

That’s why swapping is such an effective approach.