Thursday, October 30, 2014

Habits Are Often Very Fragile

When an action is easy to do, you are more likely to do it regularly. Since new habits are often very fragile, the most meaningful changes you can make are not to your attitude, but to your environment.

Examine where the habit starts to break down. These are your “ah-screw-it” moments – specific sources of friction and the reasons why you tend to fail at committing to the behavior (where you say “Screw this, it’s not worth the effort!”).

A commonly found piece of advice on building habits is to start small.  ...continue.

-- Gregory Ciotti