​Bad Habits and The Reframing Technique

Today I’m going to share with you a brilliant idea that I picked up from Nils and Jonas Salzgeber on their blog NJLifeHacks.com. This idea is a psychological “hack” that helps you subvert temptations that undermine your long-term goals, making them less powerful. It’s a reframing technique that is commonly used in psychotherapy and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), but in those contexts it's generally used to overcome things like negative self talk and limiting beliefs. In this post, I’m going to show you how to take that reframing technique and use it in a different way to modify habits that are generally pleasurable, and not necessarily even harmful, but that prevent you from achieving a long-term goal. But before I go there, let’s talk about reality.