Analyze and Understand Your Current Habits

Break down your routines: Scrutinize your daily rituals as an emperor surveys his empire. Cataloging every aspect of life—health, work, relationships—lays bare the territories ripe for conquest and those well-fortified. Understanding begins with an honest assessment, the bedrock of all improvement.

Identify triggers and rewards: Every habit is a loop of cue, routine, and reward. Recognize the triggers that lead to routines and the rewards they yield, for in this recognition lies the power to forge new destinies. Control your triggers, and you command your habits.