A New Habit Each Month

The habit formation is depend on the frequency of the action, not days. You should ask ‘how many repetitions are required to make a habit automatic?’ Instead of asking ‘how many days it takes to build a habit’.

You often decide what to do next is based on what you just finished doing. Each...

Not many people are able to continue their new year resolutions after about four months. It is only after many annual resolution abandonments that a small number of people succeed. The initial steps are hard.

Kaizen, the theory of ‘one small step’ has two aspects:

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2 main ways you can condition a habit:

• Classical conditioning: a paired association with a trigger and a behavior. Going to the gym after you wake up each morning is this kind of habit.
• Operant conditioning: you not only associate a trigger with a behavior, but you reward th...