Give your new habits a fighting chance #shorts

23 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip (TJ Walker) offering practical advice for establishing new habits: choose a time of day when you have the most energy and fewest competing demands, and prioritize energy-intensive habits in your schedule to increase consistency. The speaker warns against unrealistic plans (e.g., running eight miles after a long workday in cold/dark conditions) and urges scheduling priority for what matters.

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Give your new good habits a fighting chance. If you tell yourself, I'm going to run eight miles every day after work, and you live in the north and it's cold and it's dark then, and you come home and you're exhausted from the day, the chances of you really practicing that habit more than two days in a row are slim and none. Figure out when the best time of the day is, when you have the most energy, when you have the fewest demands on your time. If you're trying to start a new habit that takes a lot of energy, give your schedule priority to things that are really important to you to increase the odds they actually happen. Please follow the TJ Walker habit.