Oh, the Habits You'll Change!

Whether you're interested in breaking bad habits or forming good habits, the MotivAider can help you transform virtually any good intention into real life-improving changes in your behavior.

To stimulate your thinking about the kinds of changes the MotivAider can help you make, here's just a partial listing of actual goals that users worldwide have achieved with the MotivAider.

Changing habits at work

• Stay focused at meetings
• Catch others doing things right and praise them
• Adopt a learning or quality improvement mindset
• Use persuasive selling techniques
• Make cold calls
• By announcers to breathe properly, use correct posture, use proper intonation
• Monitor work activities and refocus on the most important tasks whenever necessary
• Periodically ask myself, Am I making the best possible use of my time right now?
• Apply learning from workshops and seminars
• Think creatively
• Take periodic relaxation breaks
• Improve presentation skills
• By public speakers to remember to use specific techniques to enhance rapport with audience
• Be a better team player
• Maintain a follow-through mindset

Changing habits at play

• Improve golf swing
• Improve tennis backhand
• Improve bowling technique
• Mentally rehearse basketball free throws
• When fishing, refrain from setting the hook prematurely
• Improve concentration and focus during athletic competition
• Use proper breathing technique when singing

Changing habits to improve health, fitness, rehab and safety

• Use proper breathing technique
• Facilitate healing by refraining from using an injured body part
• Use mental imagery to promote healing/recovery
• Drink more water or other fluids
• By diabetics to eat on schedule
• Accept limitations as a way to increase (rather than decrease) freedom
• Perform prescribed rehab or conditioning exercises
• Practice pain reduction methods
• Reduce intake of soda, etc.
• Solve speech problems
• Carry out bladder training
• Improve gait
• Stop teeth grinding - bruxism treatment - and jaw-clenching to prevent dental problems and relieve symptoms of TMJ dysfunction
• Follow through on prescribed self-care
• Do Kegel exercises
• Stick with a fitness program
• Stick with a diet
• Eat slowly and concentrate on extracting maximum pleasure from each unit of food in order to be satisfied with less
• Order the right foods in restaurants
• Quit smoking
• Improve posture
• Keep head up
• Keep back straight
• By persons with nervous system or muscular disorders to swallow
• Practice vision-improvement exercises
• Use proper bending and lifting techniques to prevent back injury
• Drive defensively
• Relax shoulder muscles to prevent muscle tension following neck injury
• Perform relaxation exercises before and during childbirth

Using the MotivAider to reduce stress, break bad habits, and boost self-esteem

• Reduce public speaking anxiety
• Breathe deeply
• Monitor and control mood
• Combat negativity
• Fight procrastination
• Stop swearing
• Quit biting fingernails
• Stop teeth-grinding, jaw-clenching and other harmful dental habits
• Promote restful sleep
• Stay calm during tests
• Implement therapy homework
• Think about accomplishments and positive qualities
• Try out a new attitude or outlook or maintain one that works
• Make specific self-affirmations regularly
• Stay tuned to personal priorities

Changing habits to improve personal image and increase interpersonal effectiveness

• Act more friendly
• Make frequent eye contact
• Smile more
• Be a better listener
• Avoid getting into unnecessary arguments
• Eliminate unwanted mannerisms
• Look for opportunities to praise others
• Act more assertively
• Try out new interpersonal behaviors

Changing habits to facilitate personal and spiritual growth

• Enhance creativity, openness
• Stay centered
• Remain in the present
• Carry out mindfulness training
• Practice meditation
• Expand awareness
• Anchor positive emotions
• Induce lucid dreams
• Focus on a spiritual belief or experience
• Think about God regularly

Using the MotivAider to help kids change their own behavior

• By teachers and parents to remember to use praise when they feel like yelling
• By teachers, behavior analysts, researchers and parents to effectively monitor students' behavior
• By teachers and parents to remember to pay attention to an easily overlooked child
• By teachers and parents to apply newly learned techniques or to consistently behave in accord with accepted principles
• By kids themselves to keep their attention from wandering so they can stay on task
• By kids themselves to interact more effectively with other kids
• By kids themselves to correct speech problems
• By kids themselves to remember to go to the bathroom preemptively to prevent bladder and bowel accidents in school
• By kids themselves to work now in order to have more time to play later
• By kids themselves to improve self-esteem by remembering their accomplishments and abilities
• By kids themselves to break bad habits like thumb-sucking, nail biting and teeth-grinding