The Habit Blueprint: 15 Simple Steps to Transform Your Life (The Good Life Blueprint Series)

by Patrik Edblad

To create a new habit and make it stick, you need to decide on a very specific cue that reminds you to do it, over and over again. The reason creating a very specific trigger for your habit is so useful is that it takes out all the mental effort. Instead of having to think about when, where, why, and if you’re going to do the habit on a given day, you just follow a predetermined course of action and get it done without wasting your limited mental energy.

To use implementation intention as your cue, you can use either an internal cue (such as a strong feeling) or an external cue (such a particular time, place, object, or person).

To use habit stacking write down a list of habits that you do every day without fail. Then go through that list and find the most suitable one to stack your new habit together with.

the key to establishing your new habit is to stop obsessing over the results you want and instead start obsessing over showing up every day.