Keeping Records of Current Behaviour

Don't deny the facts.

Keep an accurate record of your current behaviour

Rule up a book, or pages on a pad, and make columns for:

• Date
• Time
• What you were doing.
• Craving level (weak, mild, strong, very strong)
• What you did about it
• How you felt.

Be factual — what you ate (no cheating), how many you smoked, how much you drank — etc.

This makes you conscious of your actions, rather than running on "auto pilot".

Keep the record for, say, three days.

Now go back, and look for triggers and consequences.

Write these down. This information will be useful for you in changing your behaviour patterns.

Now take the next step.

Set Specific Objectives

1. Be specific, such as "I will walk for 30 minutes", or "I will walk for 2 kilometres".

2. Be realistic in the goals you set. Better to take some small achievable steps than to set bigger goals and find the goalpost is too far away.

The exception with this rule of small goals is when you are trying to break an ADDICTION, such as tobacco, alcohol, or drugs. In these cases, the only course of action is to STOP.

Good, now you will want to Take Action.