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One of the first places you might be sabotaging yourself is in your morning routine – your first few hours of the day. Your morning routine can set the tone for a successful day, or derail your progress before it even begins. This is why habits are so important and why they can shape our lives for better or worse.
Our habits are often the single greatest predictor of our success or failure in any area of our life. This is because so much of what we do in a day is driven by habit – an automatic response to the triggers and cues we face. These habits have a huge impact on our lives and our ability to achieve our goals. But even though that’s true, it’s not always easy to change our habits.
The biggest reason habits matter is that each of us only has a certain amount of discipline and energy to get us through the day. Trying to implement a big massive change into your life all at once is basically setting yourself up for failure. That’s why it’s important to make new habits easy, and to give yourself an instant reward.
The solution to creating better habits is to start employing a strategy known as habit stacking. The idea of habit stacking is to connect a new habit to an existing habit that you already have – something that you already do automatically. The old habit becomes the cue that reminds you to do the new habit. And make it as easy as possible – the easier it is to do, the more likely you are to stick with it.
