Reversing Ingrained Habits

When people are stressed, they tend to fall back on ingrained habits - regardless if they are helpful or harmful.
Start responding to mild stressors with better choices. The more you strengthen your habits, the more likely they will be there to rescue you when a major stressor comes along.

• Some habits matter more than others in remaking our lives.
• These are ‘keystone habits’, and they can influence how people work, eat, play, live, spend, and communicate.
• The habits that matter most

A well-crafted set of habits ensures we reach our goals with incremental steps.

• Habits can lead to overshooting our goals. A habit of reading a page a day can lead to reading more on some days, and so finish that book sooner.
• After building a habit, it ...