Would you get on an airplane with a “blind autopilot”? An autopilot that hasn’t been programmed? Probably not.

But chances are the airplane of your life is on blind autopilot if you haven’t worked your habitudes recently.

What are habitudes? It’s something John Fogg came up with. Habitudes are habits of attitudes. Attitudes we regularly “have”. This is a really powerful concept, because attitudes are much more intense than thoughts or wishes. And attitudes we engage in regularly shape our personalities probably much stronger than anything else. Habits are the part of our personalities that work “on auto-pilot”.

Virginia Satir used to say that habits are mankinds strongest motivators, and Satir really understood human nature in many ways. Richard Bandler said the same. Habits are powerful. They seem kind of boring - there’s nothing spectacular or big about habits. They’re so “common” and “ordinary”, so “usual”. But they’re extremely powerful.

That’s why I like “habitudes” so much. They condense the whole concept in one simple word - and it’s a new word, and that encourages new thinking.

Enough theory now, how can we use this?
Simple. Take 10 minutes for this exercise (if that’s not “deep enough” for you, just repeat it later).

1. Browse your habitudes.
   We all have plenty of habitudes. Get an overall picture of your “habitude landscape”. Write your habitudes down (just keywords, you don’t need to explain them).
2. Pick one habitude that’s in your way.
   A counterproductive habitude that you’d be better off without.
3. Find better alternative.
   Think what habitude you want to have instead of that bad habitude.
4. Delete and paste.
   Delete the negative habitude and replace it with the positive habitude. Don’t just delete the negative habitude. Because then you’d just have this gaping hole in your habitude landscape that you’d stumble accross all the time. Take the negative out and put a positive in.

You can make it much more complex and difficult - but try this simple version first, and after you experience for yourself how powerful this is and you want to take it one step further, post your questions as a comment or email me.