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Factors To Consider When Choosing a New Habit To Track

Factors To Consider When Choosing a New Habit To Track

  • Motivation: Choose a habit you personally care about. If you pick a habit out of a sense of obligation, your motivation will fade and continuation will be dependent on your already limited willpower.
  • Regularity: find a habit you can track daily. Each habit repetition enforces it as a behavior and strengthens the pathways in your brain related to it. Eventually making the behavior automatic; a new habit.
  • Achievability: choose something achievable so you’ll feel that if you put the effort you can do it. Better a tiny habit that you do every day than a huge one you hardly ever complete.

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Factors to consider when choosing a new habit to track:

  • Motivation: choose a habit you personally care about. If you pick a habit out of a sense of obligation, your motivation will fade.
  • Regularity: find a habit you can track daily. Each habit repetition enforces ...

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