Habits
Our Habit Experiment
Breaking Barriers
Habits for Healthcare Professionals
Reflection and Research
100

Habits go through a pattern with que, routine, reward

What is the Habit Loop?

100

Tracking progress daily helped reinforce this part of the habit loop by giving motivation and satisfaction.

What is the reward?

100

A common barrier to building habits is believing there isn’t enough of this resource.

What is time?

100

Attatching a new habit with an already existing habit

What is habit stacking?

100

Reflecting on successes and failures in habits helps develop this mindset focused on improvement.

What is growth mindset?

200

These habits help organize the day and increase productivity by planning tasks before starting them.

What is daily planning?

200

This strategy helped us stay consistent by writing down our habits and monitoring progress.

What is habit tracking?

200

This strategy helps make habits easier by attaching them to an existing routine.

What is habit stacking?

200

This habit helps professionals evaluate patient care and improve future treatment strategies.

What is self-reflection after appointments/workday?

200

Research shows habits become stronger through repeated activation of this brain pathway.

What is neural pathway?

300

This type of habit can trigger positive changes across multiple areas of life.

What are keystone habits?

300

Completing habits at the same time each day helped create this important component of habit formation.

What is consistency?

300

This psychological barrier occurs when goals are unrealistic or too large.

What is overwhelm?

300

Busy professionals can do this to prevent overwhelm due to tasks feeling to big to handle

What is Micro Habit?
300

This psychological concept explains why rewards strengthen habits

What is dopamine reinforcement?

400

When a habit loop is changed successfully, this part of the loop usually stays the same while the routine changes.

What is cue?

400

Sharing progress with group members helped create this motivational system that increases habit success.

What is accountability?

400

The best way to realistically implement habits is to start with this type of change

Small, Easy, Rewarding, better to be consistent rather than intense. 

400

A key habit for sports medicine professionals that improves both patient care and communication.

What is active listening and empathy?


400

Research shows it takes roughly this many days on average to build a habit.

What is 66 days?

500

Research shows it takes roughly this many days on average to build a habit.


What is 66 days?

500

Even when habits were missed, restarting quickly helped maintain this long-term habit building principle.

What is persistance?

500

A major strategy to overcome busy schedules is preparing for setbacks using this habit strategy.


What is planning for obstacles?

500

Busy professionals need to plan for disruptions in their workflow...

What is barrier prevention?

500

According to habit research, lasting behavior change happens most effectively when individuals focus on this type of repeated behavior rather than motivation alone.

What are consistent routines?