What are a few habits that you have? Are they healthy or are they detrimental to your health?
More likely than not it’s a mixture of both in there, with some that you’re proud of and a few others that you wish you didn’t have.
Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to replace old or unhealthy habits with newer, healthier ones.
Even worse, when you start replacing an old habit with a new one you will see reasons to stop all over the place. So you need to stop looking.
Stop looking for reasons to quit on your new habits and look for reasons to keep building them.
If you want to see reasons to keep building new habits you need to write down your motivation, put it in plain sight, and review it daily (if it is a daily habit). You can even make reviewing the motivation for your new habit as a part of the habit itself.
Also, if you are three weeks into building a new habit, say running in the morning, and then miss a day, that does not make your habit a failure unless you stop running completely. No habit needs to be done 100% of the time. Allow for the fluctuations of life.
Go for 85%+ as you are building habits, and even for the ones that are already installed in your life. Remember that you get sick, or you stayed out late with friends, or you needed to work overtime, or whatever.
Look for reasons to build new habits and then write them down. You will be surprised with how quickly you find yourself building new and better habits.
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