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6 Steps To Change Your Habits Successfully

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Identify Cues

Something has to trigger a habit, and a cue can be anything.

Maybe stress makes you crave chocolate, or the sound of your alarm triggers you to hit the snooze button.

Identifying cues helps you understand what puts your habits into motion.

Disrupt

Once you know the cues, you can throw bad habits off track.

If the alarm cues you to bash the snooze button every morning, put the alarm clock on the other side of the room.
Trekking across the cold floor will likely disrupt the snooze habit.

Replace

Research shows that replacing a bad behavior with a good one is more effective than stopping the bad behavior alone.

Deciding to eat fruit every time your mind thinks “cookie” substitutes a positive behavior for the negative habit.

Keep It Simple

It’s usually hard to change a habit because the behavior has become easy and automatic.

The opposite is true, too:
New behaviors can be hard because your brain’s basal ganglia (the “autopilot” part) hasn’t taken over this behavior yet.

Simplifying new behaviors helps you integrate them into your autopilot routines.

Think Long-Term

Habits often form because they satisfy short-term impulses,

But short-term desires often have long-term consequences, like nasty, chewed-up fingers.

Focusing long-term while trying to change habits will help you remember why you’re investing the effort.

Persist

Established habits are hard to break. But the good news is, if you keep at it, your new behaviors will turn into habits, too.

Persistence works. At first, it might be painful to get up at 5am for that jog, but soon it will be second nature.