Insomnia Is A Frustrating Cycle

If you want to implement a workout habit, but none of your friends are active and don’t want to exercise, then it’s time to make some new friends to work out with. This could be before work or before we lay down to fall asleep. The reward is feeling relaxed and more secure. Now do this every day at the same time, and you have just mastered your first daily habit. With change comes difficult choices. However, this is an easy one because you can go down to the gym and start working out around other active people. Conversations will start, and new relationships will form. If you want to start a habit of getting a better night’s sleep, it is worth considering your surroundings. It could be anything. When starting a new habit, take a look at your environment and change it accordingly. The habits we are trying to implement into our lives must be things we enjoy doing. And if they aren’t, we must start small with no pressure to do the entire routine.

From a Window

You start with climbing the stairs a couple of times, followed by stretching. Keep a journal entry of almost everything you do so that you can identify patterns of what works and what doesn’t. Most importantly, be compassionate and understanding with yourself. We put too much pressure on ourselves to do what we expect of ourselves without really looking at what is realistic. If you fall, get back up and try again. If you don’t feel like it, do something small and simple. Just because you didn’t follow through with the entire habit doesn’t mean you didn’t at least try to start it. How Do I Boost My Dopamine and Serotonin With All This Habit and Change? I always have a goal on the go. I find it useful to have a section in my journal where I jot down goal ideas as they come to me. Then I can filter through them and create an action plan for them when I start. As I go through my list, I write down the steps to accomplish my goal. With every step that I complete, I reward myself, which boosts my dopamine hormones, and I feel good about myself.

Shame On You

Every day that I have accomplished even one paragraph, I congratulate myself, and that makes me feel good. Setting milestones every step of the way and achieving them little by little not only helps boost serotonin but helps us see how far we have come from when we started. Alongside sleep, of course. Become curious for the first week. When starting your first habit of a workout routine, it’s best to write down what you think you will enjoy. For the first week, do something different every day. By the end of the week, you will know what you enjoy and what you don’t. Next week, plan your routine starting out small and deciding a daily milestone to a more significant weekly milestone and follow it for three months. Remember to reward yourself after each goal has been completed. I cannot stress this enough! Have a support team behind you. The benefit of having someone alongside you is that they can watch for when your behavior or mood starts to change and work at helping you change it. You will also feel more energized and motivated if you’re not feeling alone through this new change.

If There Was Any Other Way

Besides, having someone to socialize with and support back boosts your dopamine levels because not only are you getting the support and encouragement you need, you are also responsible for helping them. I am a morning person, so working out or exercising at this time helps me stay focused and motivated to want to exercise. You could be the same, or you could be the opposite, so it’s best to find this out and then implement your new routine in your life. If you are a morning person, try to wake up earlier than expected and hit the gym before heading to work. Not only will this set you up for success throughout your day due to your increased dopamine and concentration, but you will also feel a new sense of accomplishment. If you’re more of a night owl, then getting a nightly stroll in your neighborhood will help you become restful and relaxed, setting you up for a good night’s sleep. You will feel the difference in your mood, energy, and overall resilience to stressful events. After each workout, jot it down in a workout journal. Keeping a workout journal helps you stay focused and curious. Jot down what you did, how you felt before, during, and after, then what your goal is for next time. This will also help you keep track of your milestones and become closer to your big reward. After a couple of weeks or a month goes by, you can reread through your workout journal and see the differences you have felt since you started. You may have felt tired and unmotivated when you started, but as you go on, you are noticing you’re getting a full night’s rest, your mood is better, you’re having more clarity, and most importantly, you have less anxiety during the day. Part of starting a new workout routine means that you must never forget about rewarding yourself. Each habit begins with a cue and ends with a reward. So after about a week of exercising, you may feel sore from using muscles you never even knew you had, but the reward after your milestone makes it all worth it, not to mention how you will feel, how you will think, and what you will experience during your journey. Don’t worry if you slip up or fall off track. If it’s not one thing we try and fail at, it’s another thing. Our minds are distracting us with everything we must do tomorrow or everything we haven’t done today. Our bodies are fidgety because we’re not ready to relax yet.