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The First Step to Breaking Any Habit

September 2, 2025 | Renée Fishman

When it comes to habit change, most people fail before they start because they skip the crucial first step. Here’s how to set yourself up for success.

Filed Under: Habits, Navigating Change, Productivity Tagged With: breaking habits, coaching, creating habits, daily habits, habit change, habits, life coaching, productivity, productivity coaching

The Missing Link to Creating New Habits

August 6, 2024 | Renée Fishman

Despite all the clear instructions on how to create new habits, most people struggle to implement it for successful change. Here’s the missing link to creating new habits.

Filed Under: Habits, Productivity Tagged With: awareness, breaking habits, creating habits, habits, intentions, personal development, productivity, rituals

5 Steps to Breaking a Habit

December 18, 2023 | Renée Fishman

Breaking habits is much harder than creating habits, which is why they say “old habits die hard.” But hard doesn’t mean impossible. You can break habits with this simple 5-step process.

Filed Under: Habits, Productivity Tagged With: awareness, breaking habits, habits, mindfulness, personal development, productivity, rituals, self-awareness

3 Elements Necessary to Break Unhelpful Habits

September 1, 2023 | Renée Fishman

The saying “old habits die hard” is rooted in truth. Without a proper strategy for habit change, the old ones will keep coming back. Here are three elements needed to break unhelpful habits.

Filed Under: Coaching, Life Tagged With: awareness, behavior change, breaking habits, habit change, habits

Releasing The Emotional Charge About Memorial Day

May 25, 2020 | Renée Fishman

This Memorial Day, I’m getting off my soap box. Kind of.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: breaking habits, charge, emotions, habits, Memorial Day, shenpa

Why It’s So Hard to Change Your Self-Talk Habits

January 23, 2020 | Renée Fishman

Self-talk is one of the hardest habits to break. This metaphor helps explain why and offers a clue for how to change our self-talk.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: breaking habits, environment, habits, music, patterns, self-talk, voices

How to Catalyze Lasting Change

February 20, 2018 | Renée Fishman

protest on Washington Capitol

From civil rights to gender rights, from sexual assault to gun control, to your personal habits, all movements and all lasting change start in the same place.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: behavior change, breaking habits, change, cultural change, emotions, gun control, habits, movement, politics

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