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Making Your Habits Stick

To make any habit stick in the long-term (keystone or not), do it regularly. 

The more often you do the habit, the more you'll get used to it, and eventually, you'll do it without thinking—the definition of a habit.

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Examples of Keystone Habits

Exercising regularly is for many people a keystone habit because when they do it, they also make healthier eating and life choices and procrastinate less.

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Ease your routine

According to researchers, individuals find it easier to stick to a habit as long as they have the impression that this is easy to do. 

Therefore, one should try to simplify as much as possible the practice of his or her habit by thinking of ways to do it faster or more interesting.

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