35 important facts about human habits

The site publishes material Leo Babauty - creator of the popular blog about personal effectiveness ZenHabits.Ya learned all this from their own experience. In the early 2000s, I was trying to overcome their addiction to smoking and beaten several times - only in late 2005, I succeeded. I tried to teach myself to play sports, get rid of the habit of eating bad food, force yourself to wake up early, to become more productive, pay off debt and to simplify my life.

I have often suffered defeats, but precisely because of this defeat, I brought the lessons, which will now tell.





1. When you change something insignificant, your brain quickly gets used to the new norm.
2. Small changes are easier to arrange.
3. Small changes are easier to maintain regularly.
4. Habits associated with occasions.
5. Habits that have multiple triggers or include under various conditions, to master difficult.
6. First master more simple habits.
7. Trust in yourself.
Because the first of many times I suffered defeat, allowed himself to break promises made to yourself! If someone you are constantly lying, you cease to believe him. Similarly, you cease to believe and imagine. And the solution is the same: to gradually return the trust, relying on small promises and small victories.
8. Small changes are transformed into large.
Try very little to change his diet and level of physical activity: a year you will become much healthier. Try to learn something a little bit, and if it becomes a habit, then six months later you have a new business will get much better.

9. It does not matter where you start. But you know that it is not optimal? When there is no change at all.
10. The energy and sleep.
11. Learn to deal with distractions.
How to be? Consider this hindrance.
12. Look ahead and wait for obstacles.
13. Keep track of your internal dialogue.
14. Learn to watch your impulses, but not to give them. But you can follow her and do nothing. You can give yourself a choice.
15. Cultivate motivation.
16. Program your feedback.
In the sugar and drugs powerful feedback loop that helps addiction (habit of pleasure, and the deviation from it causes suffering), but at the sport often this cycle of weak (it is difficult to maintain the habit and shy - nice).

But the change cycle can be, and one of the best ways - responsibility to someone else.
17. Challenge yourself.
18. Exceptions to provoke an exception.
19. Habit - it does not work, but the reward.
Change your attitude: the habit of a reward in itself, is a way to take care of themselves.
20. Just a lot of new habits - it's a failure.
21. Catch moments when you are distracted.
22. Blog - this is very useful.
23. Failure - a learning process.
24. Learn how to continue after the defeat.
25. Change or die.
26. Seek support.
27. You limit yourself too.
28. Set the environment for success.
29. Lowers the barrier.
30. Ask breaks.
31. Habits situational.
32. Look for other ways to solve the problem.
33. Be kind to yourself.
34. Perfectionism - your enemy.
35. Changing habits - a tool for self-discovery.
Within a few months a change of habits you can learn about yourself more than ten years of life. In this sense, the change of habits - in itself a great reward.


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