Habit stacking is the Secret

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If you struggle to make a change in any aspect of your life, Habit stacking is what you are lacking.

Tiny habits equals huge results.

Floss just one tooth. Meditate for one minute. Read one page.

Commit to these micro quotas daily & you'll establish the behavior.

Then you can optimize & improve.

But it starts with mastering the art of showing up, no matter how small the habit.

The mistake we make sometimes is trying to leap frog into a new habit while still having the limitations or inertias of the old one.

Things take time. This is a simple understanding that should guide you as you seek to make a change and adopt a new habit or break an old one.

The beauty of this starting small is that it affords you the motivation to see it through, unlike a big task that you may most likely give up after a few minutes of starting.

Here is where the concept of 2-Minute Rule is most valuable.

This rule was coined by David Allen in Getting Things Done, and in it he expressed the ideology that “If an action will take less than two minutes, it should be done at the moment it's defined.”

No need for fussing around, strategizing and procrastinating by including it in a to-do list and all that. No.

Just get it done right way and move on.

Thus, the 2-Minute Rule is a great place to start.

This rule encourages you to downscale your habits until they can be done in 2 minutes or less.

For example "Do yoga 4 days a week" which is a long term view, becomes "Take out my yoga mat." which is something you can do in two minutes.

A new habit should feel laughably easy. Start small. Master the first 2 minutes. Then advance.

This may seem insignificant and slow when we are thinking of doing something big.

But the truth is that, no matter how motivated we might be in trying to achieve a new habit or skill, there will come a time when we will face difficulties or challenges and the only thing that can easily keep us going and motivated is that we have achieved something before.

So that will make us believe that since we were able to achieve a related goal ( in this case the small 2-minutes task earlier) that we can also be able to achieve the bigger one .

But, if you don't have a stack of small related goals that can motivate you, you may end up not completing the activities or process when you encounter challenges or get bored in the process.

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