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Build Habits

  • Habits can be both good and bad and to change yourself, you have to replace the bad habits with the good.  
  • Changing habits requires a change of environment and a change in mentality.
  • You can change habits by employing action triggers.
  • Action triggers simply have to be specific enough and visible enough to interrupt people’s normal stream of consciousness.
  • Checklists perfectly combine tweaking the environment and building habits. They can be added to the environment in order to make behavior more consistent and habitual. That tool is the humble checklist.

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Strategies for Eliminating Bad Habits

  • Identify your triggers: Look at your list of bad habits. Figure out the “who,” the “what,” the “where,” and the “when” underlying each bad behavior.
  • Clean the house. Get rid of whatever enables your bad habits.
  • Look again at your ...

To change a habit

... change your environment. Habits, both good and bad, can also be tied to the feelings and circumstances that come with an environment.

For more productive habits, engineer your environment to encourage them.

How to Avoid Bad Habits

Identifying the cue and the reward you’re craving is key to eliminating bad habits.
More often than not, you can quit bad habits by adding a little “friction”.
With this information, you can replace any bad habit with a healthier one that offers the same reward.

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