HOW TO CREATE A HABIT

Let me share with you the easiest way to create a new habit. Most people, when they think about habits, they think about all of the stuff they need to implement into their lives. The secret to implementing a new habit and making sure it sticks is to make it as simple and easy as possible. I was reading a book too, not too long ago, and the author said that he wanted to start flossing his teeth. For 20 years, he's been trying to floss his teeth, and he just couldn't create it as a habit. And so one day he decided he's going to make it as simple as possible for him to start that habit. And so he dedicated and said that I will floss one tooth, just one tooth, every single day. And that's all that he focused on, was just the one tooth. And what would he do? He'd go and he'd floss one tooth, and then he'd be like, well, I'm already here. I might as well just finish the rest of the teeth. There was also another author that I remember reading, and he said that for years he tried to start meditating, but it was hard to get himself to motivate himself to sit down for 20 minutes every single day to meditate. And so what he did was he made a commitment to himself to sit down on his meditation pillow for one minute a day, not even meditate, just to sit down on it. And what he found was once he was there, it was easy to go for 10, 15, 20 minutes in a meditation. So both of those two flossing their teeth, meditating started with a very simple, very easy task. Because most of the time, the problem is not that the task is hard, it's just that it's harder for us to start. And so in order to actually make a habit start and stick is to make it as simple and easy as possible for you to actually get going on that habit. So whatever the habit is that you want to create, whatever it might be, ask yourself, how can I make it as simple and easy as possible for me to implement this in my daily routine?