Pick one habit, not ten. The speaker uses waking up at a set time for 100 straight nights as an example of how a single repeatable action builds discipline and triggers other improvements without the overwhelm that kills most people's resolutions.
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What is that one habit or the keystone habit that is going to propel so many other habits and over achievers when they learn something that's new and exciting like this. Some people listen to this book right now are like alright I've already identified five habits I need to start tomorrow and what happens is people load themself up and try to make a massive shift in their life immediately. I'm just trying to get better at just this one thing because if you go okay, I'm going to get five keystone habits I'm going to try to get these five habits to change. You're going to have massive resistance. Your subconscious is going to resist it. Your old self is going to resist it. How can you just say I'm going to make sure before I go to bed every night for the next 100 days I'm going to do this thing. If your feet hit the floor at the time you said they were going to that is your keystone habit. It has been completed.