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Enlist a Community
it’s not just your physical environment that influences your behavior but also your social one. Motivation is contagious.
A community also helps with accountability. If you’ve made a commitment to another person or group, you’re more likely to stick with it.
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Rig Your Environment
In habit speak, don’t underestimate the power of everything around you to act as a trigger.
A better option than relying purely on willpower is to consciously design your environment to remove the temptations that regularly get in the way of what you’re trying to do.
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Trigger, Behavior, and Reward
Much of human behavior follows a predictable cycle: trigger, behavior, reward.
For behaviors that you want to do, the goal is to make triggers salient, the behavior easy, and the reward as immediate and satisfying as possible. For behaviors that you want to avoid, it’s the opposite. ...
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Start Small
If you want to make any kind of significant change, you’d be wise to take baby steps.
If you regularly overshoot on the ability side of the equation, you’re liable to flame out. But if you gradually increase the challenge over time, what was hard last week will seem easier today.
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Replace Self-Judgment with Self-Compassion
The harder the habit change, the more likely you are to fail or relapse into old ways of being. Your reaction when this happens is critical.
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The Help of a Community
A group supporting you with your goals can be an effective technique for motivation. It is a form of public commitment and peer pressure to keep you from postponing or giving up upon your goals.
You can also use social media to announce and provide updates on your self-improvement endeavor...
Use a Reading Tracker
One of the best ways to establish and stick with a new reading habit or commitment is to boost your motivation with a reading tracker.
The point of tracking isn’t primarily to hold you accountable, it’s to provide positive reinforcement, and therefore motivation, to ...
Strategies To Build A Community
- Build community around ideas to attract people and help your community to stand out.
- Fix what others are doing wrong. If you’re interested in an area inundated with bad networking options a solution we will attract people.
- Connect around shared experiences.
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