STATEWIDE – Roy W. Dean Film Grant – Application Deadline 6/30 – Virginia Film Office Roy W. Dean 2016 Summer Film Grant Got a unique film project that contributes to society? The Roy W. In addition to the cash prize, the winner receives a 1TB G-Drive ev ATC with Thunderbolt in Watertight Rugged case from grant donor G-Technology, $1,000 in consultation, marketing material creation, design, and marketing strategizing from Smart Girl Productions., $1,295.00 scholarship to Writers Boot Camp, and much more from many other heartfelt donors. Even if you don’t win the grant, you win something valuable. You can apply for the grant at The What-The-Hell Effect What pizza and cookies can teach us about goal-setting. Goal-setting can be a handy way of improving performance, except when we fall foul of a nasty little side-effect. Take dieting as an example. Let’s say you’ve set yourself a daily calorie limit. You manage to keep to this for a few days until one evening after work, your colleagues drag you out to a restaurant. Instead of your healthy meal at home you’re faced with a restaurant menu. Then in the restaurant you eat some bread and have a drink while everyone chooses from the menu. So, just as we’re getting somewhere with reaching our goal, the whole thing goes out the window in a moment of madness. The what-the-hell effect isn’t just a lack of self-control or momentary lapse; it is directly related to missing a goal. The pizza and cookies experiment Recent research by Janet Polivy and colleagues at the University of Toronto is a good example (Polivy et al., 2010). Avoid the what-the-hell effect So, is there any way around this?
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4 Strategies To Change Your Habits That Actually Work As we all know from bitter experience, it can be very tough to change a habit. But surprisingly, habit change can sometimes be easy. In the research for my upcoming book Better Than Before, I discovered many strategies that we can exploit to master our habits, and four strategies—the Strategies of the Clean Slate, Monitoring, Inconvenience, and Treats— that are easy to use. The Strategy of the Clean Slate The Strategy of the Clean Slate is powerful, and can come at any point When we experience any transition, our old habits are wiped away, and we get a "clean slate." During college, I would have declared it impossible to wake up and exercise. In particular, research shows that the time of moving is a terrific time to change habits. The Strategy of Monitoring Another easy way to change habits? It’s important to accurately measure your actions, rather than just guess. We’re often lousy at tracking expenditures, too. The Strategy of Inconvenience Another easy way to change habits?
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How To Change Habits (The Ultimate Guide) When did you wake up today? What did you have for breakfast? How many hours did you spend reading? These questions are really dull and asking them makes me sound like your mom. But bear with me, because the way you answer these questions determines nothing less than your success in life. Why Are Habits Important? Aristotle said it first: “We are what we repeatedly do. You are what you do on a day-to-day basis. If you get up early, you will be more productive. It’s the little things that matter. Over time, these tiny actions will accumulate and ultimately determine what kind of life you’re going to live. Will you be productive? All of these areas depend not on a single big action, but on tiny little actions repeated again and again and again. If you want to achieve lasting, long-term success, you have to pay attention to your habits. There is, however, one big problem: Habits Are Hard To Change It’s hard to build good habits and it’s even harder to get rid of the bad ones. Sounds good?
Why Some People Respond to Stress by Falling Asleep - The Atlantic Last month, my wife and I found ourselves in a disagreement about whether or not our apartment was clean enough for guests—the type of medium-sized disagreement that likely plagues all close relationships. In the midst of it, there was a lull and, feeling exhausted all of a sudden, I got up and left the living room. In the bedroom, I immediately fell face down into the sheets. The next thing I knew it was 20 minutes later and my wife was shaking me awake. I hadn’t meant to fall asleep; I just felt so fatigued in that moment that there was nothing else I could do. This wasn’t new for me. Though this has happened many times before, my response to conflict still seems strange to me. Of course, you don’t actually want the stress response system to be too reactive. But that’s not what my body did. I asked around, and found out that many others experience the same thing. Even though dozens of people told me similar stories, I began to wonder what was wrong with us—what was wrong with me.
The Best Way to Change Your Habits? Control Your Environment There’s just one way to radically change your behavior: radically change your environment.—Dr. B.J. Fogg, Director of Stanford Persuasive Lab Most of us would like to think that our habits follow our intentions. The truth is that one of the mind’s chief functions is to spot and utilize patterns as shortcuts, in order to process the multitude of information we observe each day. We are more reliant on environmental triggers than we’d like to think. In one study conducted on “habits vs. intentions,” researchers found that students who transferred to another university were the most likely to change their daily habits. This mirrors research on the stimulus control theory, or the effect of a stimulus on behavior. In short, those who had trouble falling asleep were told to only go to their room and lie in their bed when they were tired. Perhaps we are more like Pavlov’s dogs than first imagined. If you use a big spoon, you’ll eat more. Using Your Environment to Change Behavior 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.)
Garden Ideas How to Break a Habit: 12 Strategies for Success We all want to be healthy, strong, energized, and happy. So why do so many of us have habits that take us in an opposite direction? Simple: Losing a habit requires change. And of all the things we do in a day, changing is by far the hardest. You know this, and so do the experts. 1. Rationalization is the art of coming up with facts to defend something that is indefensible. 2. Part of the rationalization process is seeing your habit as the inevitable result of other things in your life. 3. Isolating a habit makes sense when the perceived trigger of causes is long or complicated. 4. Facts are weak motivators. 5. Research suggests that one of the main reasons we persist with bad habits is that so many other people have them too; they are cultural norms. 6. The research is clear here too: People who try to make a change due to guilt or frustration often fail. 7. 8. So far, we’ve talked about the mindset changes that precede taking on a bad habit. 9. 10. 11. 12.
How to Break a Habit—or Start a New One Habits are much more powerful than we realize. So often we act out of what we are used to, what we know, what we have done in the past instead of making a better choice. A choice in the moment that might be for our higher good. How are habits formed? Through repetition, when we repeat the same action in the same situation. What’s the best way to get rid of a habit? In some ways it’s not possible to get rid of a habit because any habit you create tends to stay in the mind forever. Sometimes replacement requires a lot of willpower. When you’re trying to change a habit, you’re going to have this fight, this kind of willpower battle, between the new habit and the old habit. What about creating a whole new habit? The first thing is to have a really specific goal in mind, like flossing for example. Can you tell us a little bit about if/then plans, which are supposed to be helpful in creating habits? What are some other strategies that are helpful in forming good habits?