If you’re a coach, you’ve got to engage the person, get them
enthused about achieving the goal of change. Here it helps to draw on their
dreams, their vision for themselves, where they want to be in the future. Then
work from where they are now on what they might improve to help them get where
they want to go in life.
Execute fundamentals.
If you persist in the better habit, that new circuitry will
connect and become more and more powerful, until one day you'll do the right
thing in the right way without a second thought.
For how long and how many times does an action have to be
repeated until it’s actually hard-wired? A habit begins to be hard-wired the
very first time you practice it. The more you practice it, the more
connectivity. How often you have to repeat it so that it becomes the new
default of the brain depends in part on how strong the old habit is that it
will replace. It usually takes three to six months of using all naturally
occurring practice opportunities before the new habit comes more naturally than
the old.
Another practice opportunity can occur whenever you have a
little free time: mental rehearsal. Mental rehearsal activates the same neural
circuitry as does the real activity. This is why Olympic athletes spend
off-season running through their moves in their brain – because that counts as
practice time, too. It’s going to increase their ability to perform when the
real moment comes.
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