In this Three Thoughts for Thursday episode, I’m inviting you to look at habits in your business through a very different lens. Habits, even the ones we label as “bad,” are not failures of discipline. They’re strategies. They’re solutions your system created to solve a problem, reduce friction, or conserve energy.

We’ll explore why habits form in the first place, why removing a habit without replacing its function often creates backlash, and why your subconscious mind doesn’t care whether a habit is good or bad. It only cares if it’s familiar, predictable, and efficient.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in a loop with a habit that “should be gone by now,” this episode offers a compassionate and practical reframe. Change doesn’t come from force. It comes from understanding what problem the habit is actually solving and creating a safer, more sustainable alternative.

Welcome to three Thoughts for Thursday, where wisdom meets momentum.

Here's Kimberly Beer, entrepreneurial, wise woman and cyber sorceress to share three sparks to challenge how you think, create and lead.

My three thoughts for this Thursday are regarding habits and habits that we create in our business for good or for bad.

So my first thought here is that all habits are our strategy and solution.

That's how they start.

That's how they're born into our lives.

Habits get formed because they are a way for us to deal with a situation, our environment, our anxiety, whatever it happens to be.

They have a root in a strategy or a solution to a problem that we're experiencing.

And when we look at a habit, be it a good one or be it a bad one, we want to make sure we acknowledge the fact that that habit is actually serving a purpose.

And saying that we are going to eradicate it or develop it means that we need to know why that habit got formed and what it is supporting in the architecture of our life and what part it is playing in our system.

And this is another reason why resolutions don't work so well.

Because many times resolutions are us going we're going to create a habit here, but we haven't fully connected with why we need that strategy or that solution, if that makes sense.

So it's another reason why resolutions fail.

My second thought on this subject is that removing a habit without replacing its function creates backlash.

In other words, it is part of your system and part of the structure.

And if you take out anything out of a system or out of a structure, it causes disruption.

And sometimes that disruption is minor and you will figure out another habit to fill in the blank.

Sometimes that's a good habit, sometimes it's a bad habit, sometimes it causes a collapse.

However, and we need to be mindful of the fact that when we take away a habit, especially if we don't understand everything that is underneath it, or the strategy or the solution that is providing in our system and our architecture, we can cause disruption or destruction.

So we need to make sure that we have whatever that strategy is, we have an alternate one that is going to work, figure it out or we have another solution in place.

My third thought on this is that your subconscious doesn't care if the habit is good or bad.

It makes zero judgments around that.

It only cares if the habit is familiar and if it's predictable and it saves energy.

And oddly enough, that last one can sometimes seem a little counterintuitive.

But change does happen when the new habit feels safer than the old old one.

And if you're developing a new habit, especially this time of year, you want to make sure that your new habit does create that safe space that saves energy.

Even though it may seem like the other habit was consuming a lot of your energy, at the end of the day, it's likely done something in that strategy or solution area to make sure that your system stays focused functional, and it is actually probably solving a problem.

So again, go Back to thought 1 what problem are we solving here?

If you are stuck in a loop?

This is kind of my bonus thought, I guess.

If you're stuck in a loop where you're like, you know, this habit just does not serve me anymore.

I don't really need it.

If it didn't go ahead and go away on its own and it's a habit that you want to change, then kind of still look around deeper.

That's a clue that chances are you haven't completely figured out a alternate strategy that's going to work, or it's still solving a problem.

Maybe not the original one that developed it.

This is where working with a therapist or working with a gestaltist or working with a hypnotherapist can really help you be able to identify what where those habits are coming from and figure out what solutions they're providing for you.

And also figure out how you can create the foundation that a habit needs to have.

A good habit needs to have to form so that it can become a routine expression for you that is familiar and predictable and saves energy.

All right, thank you for hanging out with me today.

I hope you're making listening to the Be More Business podcast a habit, and I hope it's a good one for you.

So thanks again for hanging out.

I will see you in the next episode.

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