Habit Stacking: 127 Small Actions That Take Five Minutes or Less

by S.J. Scott

On the surface, all you did was exercise for thirty minutes every day, but the addition of this single habit caused a chain reaction of positive results. That’s the essence of a keystone habit—it’s a single change that produces a positive trickle-down effect in other areas of your life.

The purpose of IFTTT and Zapier is to create automated rules between two pieces of technology that you frequently use. (IFTTT calls them recipes and Zapier calls them Zaps.) One of the cooler ones I found is certain coffee makers will start brewing when your FitBit registers that you’re awake. What you want to do here is automate all those small tasks that you do daily, which will free up your time to focus on the important things.