Forty percent of your day is not a decision -- it is your habits. What are some tips and tricks to change your habits? What are some critical habits that can make your more successful (or less)? This ignite speech was given at #SkITSummit2015 in 5 minutes by Vicki Davis - @coolcatteacher.

1. Choose Your
Habits
Change Your Life
Vicki Davis
@coolcatteacher

3. You don’t manage your time,
You SPEND it.
How will you spend your habits?

5. Create launch
routines:
30/30 app
 When you wake up
 When you go to school
 When you arrive back
home

6. P – rayer
A- ffirmations
V – ision
E – xercise
R – eading
S - cribing (Journaling)

9. Good Habits: Make it 20 seconds easier to do
Bad Habits: Make it 20 seconds harder to do
Shawn Achor “Happiness expert”

10. Keystone Habits
1. Make Your Bed
2. Planning
• 40 Days
• Weekly
• Daily
Trusted
Process
Time

11. Every 90 minutes – MOVE!

12. Miracle Moment: What I Do at Break
1. Drink Water
2. Eat a Handful of Almonds
3. Do a Plank (or 2)
4. Walk Outside
5. Listen to a Podcast or
Read Something

13. Set Alarms
To Move
A Personal Attitude Check
A Habit Check

14. Exercise: Every Little Bit Helps

15. Joy Journaling

16. Signature Strength
STUDY
577 volunteers used their signature strength in
one way each day for a week
RESULTS
One month later, they were
happier than before the study!
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2015/03/make-you-happy

17. Reading/ Learning Habit

18. Get Rid of Gossip
Gossip
#1 Use of
Verbal Time
of Those
Below the
Poverty Line

19. Watch Less TV
Heavy TV Viewers
Lower life satisfaction
Higher material wants
Higher anxiety
Children are
2 ½ times happier doing a
hobby than TV
3 times happier doing a sport
than TV

22. Choose Your
Habits
Change Your Life
Vicki Davis
@coolcatteacher