Habits you can change for a more sustainable life

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Jun 10, 2022

Marie

Habits

What is a habit? According to the Oxford Dictionary it is:

A settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up.

But humans can change.

We have events and life situations that require us to change course, change location, change jobs, start a new chapter in our lives but do we have to wait for the earthquake to happen under our feet before we change our habits to improve the life of our planet, our home, or is this just laziness on our part?

I am challenging you to change one habit every 3 months, that is 4 habits in a year. Think about what habits you can change. You could download my free, plastic free action plan. Find it on my home page.

The habits I am changing are, using a refill shop for all my toiletries and cleaning items. I am growing some vegetables in my garden. I am also stopping to think about each new purchase, can I purchase the same thing more sustainably, with no plastic. This does not work every time, but this is where the big businesses come in, they must do their fair share too.

So, make a start, one habit at a time.

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