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…like any process, there are things we can do to optimize it – to speed things along and make course corrections along the way.
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By understanding how our habits grow and what our role is in the growth process, we can reliably design for the change – the transformation – we want in our life.
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When you feel successful at something, even if it’s tiny, your confidence grows quickly, and your motivation increases to do the habit again…
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Hope and fear are vectors that push against each other, and the sum of those two vectors is your overall motivation level.
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One key to designing long-term change is to reduce or remove the demotivators. This allows the natural motivation (often it’s hope) to blossom…
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The first time people do a behavior is a critical moment in terms of habit formation.
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When a demotivator goes away, you open the door to a bigger and harder behavior.
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When people feel successful, even with small things, their overall level of motivation goes up dramatically, and with higher levels of motivation, people can do harder behaviors.
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If you want to create a list of the habits you want to eventually do, don’t get too rigid with your list.
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Knowing how many new habits to do at once and when to add more is a skill you build largely by diving in, trying stuff, and learning what works for you.
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