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How to Make Difficult Decisions with the 10/10/10 Analysis

Decisions. We all have to make them on a daily basis: what most important task to delegate, what to eat for lunch and whether to do your laundry on Tuesday or Wednesday to name a few. But while most of our decisions are insignificant, a few of them aren’t and carry great importance. The question […]

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How to Kick the “Just-This-Once Mentality” and Commit to Your Habits in the Long-Term

How often do you let yourself off the hook for “misbehaving”? If you detoxing from alcohol for 30 days and you have one glass of wine? Is it really that bad? This depends on who you ask (if you ask a recovering alcoholic, the answer is a resounding yes). But perhaps a more important question is: what […]

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What’s Rewarding About Your Long-Term Habits?

In economics, the law of diminishing marginal returns states: “The tendency for a continuing application of effort or skill toward a particular project or goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain level of result has been achieved”. [1] If you’ve read my book, you’ll know every habit is comprised of a cue (a trigger for […]

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Habits Need Habit-Compatible Cues

If you’ve read my book (or any habit literature for that matter), you’ll understand that habits are linked to triggers (or cues). However, it’s not enough to link any arbitrary cue to a habit (“when my alarm sounds, I’ll go for a 5 kilometre run”). It has to be a cue that causes you to optimally perform the habit […]

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