Hey everyone. I'm new here, so I hope you don't mind if I post what I've been thinking. My problem first and foremost is falling back on old habits ("I feel sad. Maybe a cookie will help." You get the idea).
I was listening to an interview with Dan Pink from his show Crowd Control where the team gets people to check bad habits by shocking them with something new and different:
"The "Crowd Control" crew manages to get partiers in New Orleans to clean up their mess with a trivia-quiz trash can. In another segment, Pink prompts drivers to actually go under the speed limit with a little help from a cash prize lottery. In another, jaywalkers stop jaywalking when they have something to do while they're waiting."
So my idea is: what if we put some things in place to shock ourselves into not doing the same old things that don't work? I'm not sure what this would be, maybe:
*Having to turn on and sing '500 miles' at top volume each time we feel the urge to pull into X restaurant parking lot?
*Dropping everything and playing a favorite app game until we reach X points or X wins each time we feel like taking a big spoon to the peanut butter jar?
*Choosing to let our daughter make us dance through her song choice on Just Dance every time we say how tired we are?
The idea is for the alternative to be a fun distraction, something to interrupt the bad choice moment. I like this as an alternative to ideas such as "Go walk the dog" because it's silly, and I need more silliness in my life.
Have a blessed day!