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Personal Habits: How To Make Good Habits Stick, 6 Proven Secrets - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Focus On Keystone Habits
Keystone habits lead to the development of multiple good habits.
Exercise is a good example of this. Once you start to change your exercise habits, it sets off a chain reaction that changes other habits as well: you start feeling good about your body, you eat healthy foods, you procrastinate less, etc.
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Use “Minimum Viable Effort”
Focus on baby steps. The key to new good habits is to do the minimum and be consistent.
Do not be ambitious at the beginning. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for, so make the hurdle as low as possible.
Make A Plan
Thinking about the details makes you more likely to follow through.
Just writing down your plan also makes a big difference in effectively committing to your goals.
Reward Yourself
Tie a “want” to a “should.”
For example: if you want to listen to an audiobook but you know you should go to the gym, allow yourself to only listen to audiobooks while working out.
Use Reminders
Mark the calendar. Set the alarm. Use a checklist.
When you’re trying to break bad habits, you need to resist. But with good habits, you need to remind.
Get Help From Friends
Peer pressure works. And a good support network shows us that change is possible.
Hang out with pals who have the habit you want. Across many different kinds of behavior (voting, smoking, weight loss and weight gain, happiness, etc), people are very meaningfully affected by the behaviors of other people to whom they’re connected.
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Making Your Habits Stick
To make any habit stick in the long-term (keystone or not), do it regularly.
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Keep Track Of Your Habit Every Day
It helps to know how often you’re succeeding (or not). Use whatever works for you: pen and paper of habit tracking apps.
A simple way to keep track of your progress is to mark each day you complete your habit on a calendar.
Start Small
Do the minimum you can and be consistent in your behavior.
To create a new habit, you must first simplify the behavior. A good tiny behavior is easy to do — and fast.
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We all make bad decisions
While we may not like to admit this, we all are making a lot of bad decisions, be it our personal lives, careers or in our jobs. Here is what research says about making good decisions:
The right information, not more
If there is too much information, we tend to make the wrong decision, and even if our decision is well-researched and considered right, we end up dissatisfied.
The right information, even if less, provides clarity to make the right decision.
Gut feelings vs logic
A gut feeling, or an instinct, is often the right path, and points towards the right decision.
Ultra-rational, logical and unemotional decision-making does not guarantee that the decision taken will be the right one.
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The Compounding Effect of Habits
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Consistency matters more than frequency
We usually make effort unsustainable. For example:
- We work out like crazy for a few days (usually at the beginning of the year) and never go back to the gym.
- We try to meditate for 30 mins one day and don’t give it another shot until 10 days later
But when it comes to developing and maintaining a new habit, frequency matters more than intensity.
Identity-based Habits
- What is the behavior a person who is in shape? They go to the gym consistently
- What is the behavior of a prolific writer? They crack open a notebook every day.
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