Positive Psychology and the Conscious Mind

Positive thoughts lead to positive actions. I think therefore I am (Rene Descartes)


Our habits are stored in our unconscious mind. Think of driving to work and sometimes you "Zone" out - this is you unconscious taking over (luckily it's good at driving!)

To change habits we need to practise the new "habits". At first we'll be really aware doing them (our conscious mind) but after time, they'll become second nature and go into our unconscious. So "good habits" are worth practising as we'll then be doing the things we want to do naturally.

This is how we learn new "good habits" - I'm the best time keeper ever!

Start at the bottom and work up to the top

Conscious incompetence
Unconscious Incompetence
Conscious competence
Unconscious competence

This is the "bad habit" ie: poor time keeping. The person is unaware of it(This is NOT you as you are aware you want to make a change.
Now aware of habit - oops know I need to improve my time keeping
I can change my habit when I think about it. Aware I'm not snoozing.
This is it! I'm a good time keeper and don't even think about it!