Avoid thinking about changing a habit, but instead think about changing your self-conception.

Pros:

•  “I’m a healthy person now,” for example can trigger eating better, exercising more and quitting smoking and drinking all at once.
• If successful, these...

The goal is to do it every day (if possible) but if you miss a day, you must do the habit the following day.

Pros:

• Easier to keep up for longer stretches with harder habits.
• Easier to handle on an irregular schedule.

Cons:

This strategy works by deputizing others to enforce your habit for you.

Pros:

• No formal rules or mechanisms are required, just the social pressure from the outside.
• If you find yourself constantly breaking your own commitments, this may be the only

You commit to some change for 30 days, then tou can go back to your old ways. But having spent thirty days applying a new behavior is often enough to convince you to stick with it.

Pros:

• Can handle more significant/difficult behavior changes you might be unli...

It means practicing the habit a bunch of times in an artificial situation so that it occurs more automatically in real life.

Pros:

• For when you think you won’t be able to consciously control your reaction in the real situation without practice.
• When

Keep track of how many days in a row you’ve successfully followed your habit. As your chain gets longer and longer, you become increasingly committed to the habit.

Pros:

• Maintains habits over a longer timeframe than a 30-day trial.
• Better for thing...