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Learning Taekwondo requires you to change the ways you have previously done some things, such as the way you breathe, the way you walk, the way you react to something flying toward your face, and the way you train. Sometimes the most difficult part of learning Taekwondo is affecting these changes within yourself. Instructors can guide you and tell you ways to affect self-change, but you are only one who can affect change within yourself. The following are some proven methods for affecting self-change.

Robert Epstein, a professor at United States International University in San Diego, California and editor for Physiology Today, and his students reviewed decades of literature on self-change and surveyed centuries of self-change methods from religious leaders, philosophers, psychologists, and psychiatrists. Many of these methods are similar and many have been subjected to scientific scrutiny where researchers looked for the ones that work best. Three methods stood out as powerful, simple, easy to learn techniques that work. Epstein calls them the Three M's: modify, monitor, and make.

Modify Your Environment

By making small modifications to your environment, you may affect tremendous change in your behavior. The power of rearranging one's space as been well documented in studies since it was first reported in the 1960s. Psychologist Richard Stuart, a director of Weight Watcher International in the 1960s, showed that women could lose weight by modifying their "stimulus environment," such as by eating from smaller plates and by confining all food to the kitchen. Modifications that may help you affect beneficial changes to you Taekwondo training include, but are not limited to: leaving notes around your house to remind you to practice your patterns, leaving your training equipment near your bed so you see it first thing in the morning as reminder to stretch and do your morning sit-ups and pushups, tape a picture to your bathroom mirror of someone performing a technique in the manner you want to be able to perform it so you see it every morning, and park further away from work each day so you have to walk more each day.

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