Some thoughts and ideas on Habits

To change your habits, you need to re-program your brain (starting from your inner self to outer self).

Takes a lot of mental rehearsal (the trigger, cue)

Physical reheasal.

Speed makes it work.

One habit at a time - make small calculated changes.

Track your progress.

Find the source.

Change the focus habit each week.

Professor BJ Fogg (Stanford University) - the behavior model

B = MAT (Behavior = Motivation x Ability x Trigger); most people can manage the motivation and ability; the missing element is the trigger - or rather the inconsistent trigger).

We need to be aware first and then decide on what to change - what is the trigger and action on it.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time." - Mark Twain

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