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The best way to turn a behavior into a habit is to use a trigger to remind yourself to do it. Your trigger needs to be something you always do anyway. Anything you already do without thinking works.

As you build new habits, you create new triggers for yourself and stack a new habit onto it....

1. If you want to stick with a habit, first you have to make it obvious.  
2. When and where are the most important questions for the habit formation. 
3. I will  ( behaviour ) at ( time ) in ( location ). 
4. Implementation intention clears the foggy notion. 
5. Habit stack...

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