Conclusion
Habits change when you commit to making a 1% improvement daily over an extended time. Like atoms, these improvements stack up to form a whole organism. Thus, focus on creating systems that enable you to stack up these atoms. Focusing on systems ensures that you continue to improve after reaching specific goals or milestones you have set for yourself.
Before something becomes a cue, it needs to be assigned a meaning. If you do not become aware of a cue, it will be impossible to crave it. Contentment with your current situation is the key to happiness. Happiness disappears the moment a new desire comes along. We long for the representation of pleasure created in our minds.
The driving force of behavior is desire. If you nurture a desire for the needed habit, you will maintain it. Emotions drive action. Logical reasons are not as powerful as emotions when doing something, and craving comes before a response. It is our feelings that determine what we do. We evaluate actions only after we have carried them out. When these actions are satisfying to our brains, we get reminders at a later time to repeat these actions. Be mindful of what gives you satisfaction.
Try this:
Create a habit scorecard to see whether you have a net positive or negative pattern. Identify one routine you want to stop and one you want to develop. Apply the appropriate methods to the habits.
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