The Best Morning Habits

• There are clear goals.
• Gain immediate feedback.
• Challenges need to be matched with personal skills.
• The task has to be challenging enough to require a person to employ their skills and promote concentration and engagement.

To beat procrastination and make better long-term choices, find a way to make your present self act in the best interest of your future self. You have 3 primary options:

1. Make the rewards of long-term behavior more immediate.
2. Make the costs of procrastination more immediate.

• When habits form, they form a strong sequence of connections with neurons that downstream synapses in which were the later ones being fired with a higher probability than the first.
• Learning happens when associations of one long-term memory become tightly coupled with another.