I'm reading a great book on changing habits - One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way. It advises *very* small steps to making a change. For example, drinking less coffee: Drink one ounce less for a week, then two ounces less, etc. Also, you might get some ideas from this post: http://www.davidco.com/forum/showpost.php?p=47200&postcount=2 -

I guess it depends on why you're not looking at them. A few possibilities come to mind. 1) It is a new habit, which you haven't yet cultivated. 2) You're repelled by the actions you've committed to. 3) Your work and life are still structured to reward (or require) reaction to urgency/crises. If you can figure out the causes, you can make progress on making structural changes that support the new behavior.

Regarding forming new habits, here are a few resources:

From Organize Your Work Day In No Time by K.J. McCorry: 21 days to form new ones, with daily repetition. 90% of normal behavior is habits!

o just do it
o set realistic expectations for yourself
o develop consistency
o ask for support from your colleagues, spouse, or friends
o get back on track if you get out of the habit

Establish Habits

1) Be Patient
2) Start small
3) Be Concrete
4) Write it down
5) Prepare in Advance
6) Reward yourself
7) Link Habits - An effective way to establish a new habit is to pair it with an established habit
8) Seek Support
9) Go Public - One way to increase your sense of accountability is to tell other people about your effort

SNAP Habit Training

SNAP:

1) S: Start Strong - Launch the new habit decisively.
2) N: No exceptions - Never make an exception to the new habit.
3) A: Act when prompted - Act >>on every emotional prompting,<< i.e. whenever you want to act on the new habit, be sure to do so!
4) P: Practice! - Do it every day. Exercise the new habit every day.

Finally: Installing a new habit and breaking an old one