By Linda from The Witches Kitchen.
You make your habits and then your habits make you.
Isn't it an inspired quote?
I have been trying for ages now to bed in the habit of always carrying a water bottle - or two actually - a small one in my handbag and a bigger one in my basket. I am making a me that doesn't buy bottled water.
It seems like it should be so simple, and yet every so often I still find myself out and about without a water bottle. I know it's totally illogical, but I cannot bring myself to buy water - it just seems too pathetic. So what do I do? I buy some kind of flavoured drink instead - which is actually worse for me, more of a waste, and doesn't even work as well as a thirst quencher - numbers, sugar, packaging, and marketing. But at least I'm not buying water!
There is only habit standing between me and non-bottled-water-buying me. My home water from the tank is so much nicer, actually sweet. The rain in my part of the world is about as unpolluted as rain can be. And plastic water bottles are one of thoes thoughtless inanities for which we are trading the future of the planet.
Mostly I carry plain tank water in my bottle. Sometimes I add a little squeeze of citrus juice - lemon, lime, tangerine, finger lime. Or a sprig of mint or peppermint. If I am taking a packed lunch, a cold water bottle keeps it all cool. I have a really nice metal water bottle that I picked up at a garage sale. There is really no reason at all ever to buy water. It would be funny in an absurd way if it weren't so utterly tragic.
How do you create good habits, and make them stick fast?
9 comments:
Make a nice bag to carry your bottle, and you will do it in style :-)
I am just the same, if I forget my water bottle ever, I end up buying something to drink that is not water, just out of the principle of not buying bottled water. It is one of the most ridiculous wastes of our age.
I have two of those lovely metal bottles a politician gave me and I love them.. my daughter and I fill them up and put them in the cup holder of the vehicle.. their so handy.. and if we plan to stop for a quick burger we never order drinks because we have our water.. sometimes we take a picnic lunch to the park and we fill a large pickle bottle with ice water to drink.. I think my habit came easy because water is my drink of choice...
If you've got a big 20oz bottle or something, try only filling it up half way if your destination will have a drinking fountain. Water get's heavy, and might be a subconscious deterrent to carrying your bottle everywhere. If you're destination has water, you don't need to carry in your own entire supply.
Habits can be a ritual, so fill a bottle every night before you know you're going out and leave it by your purse. Also what about leaving an empty container in your car?
I always take my water. It probably started out as me being too tight to buy food or drink when out but is now habit.
Maybe you could stick a note on your steering wheel, seeing it as you get in the car will jog or memory. Leave your keys with a water bottle, grab one, grab the other...
I am in the process of writing about my different water bottles.
Good luck with it, it's important.
Barb.
Oh that is so true - why should plain water be the same price as a flavored drink? I had a metal one but it got grungy inside. I like the glass ones, but they are heavier to carry. I always have a bottle with me, although it is a re-usable plastic one. I really should get another metal one.
I've carried water or watered down cranberry juice somewhat sporadically for years, but these last two years, my track record is really good. Pat my back. Also, for a longer drive, I bring my own snacks or even a sandwich. Though it's kind of heavy, I even keep nearly a gallon of water in the trunk for the radiator - mine or other's.
brenda from ar
Maybe you don't always feel like drinking water? I often take a bottle of water, but of late I regularly take out an insulated container of tea or coffee - it's metal lined with a funky exterior, and is shaped just like a carry-out coffee cup... I like having it in my hand and sipping from it as I go round the shops or out for a walk.... and it comes from a)getting fed up with just water and b)being too stingy to cough up the $5 for a very average coffee or tea ;D The container cost me $12 and I've used it for well over a year... just think how many $5 I've not had to spend!!
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