Habit Formation Techniques

What worked for me was making the habbits as small as possibile, at least in the beggining. Want to medditate in the morning? Start with 1 minute for 90 days. Streching after waking up? Sure, do 1 rep of 1 exercise for a week and then add another rep etc.Turns out that for me the most difficult thing to do was to smart small so that I do not stop when my initial optimism fades. I got around it by thinking that I would still be better off after doing 1 rep of a single exercise a day for a year

try something like ticking off/writing down your successfull tries eg in a calendar or a (bullet) journal. helps to keep yourself committed to it, as you probably do not want to break your already created streak.

Goals don't work for me. Habits do. See if you can transform your goals into things you can actually do, rather than things you want to reach.

My startup is focused on building habits and we've found that doing one thing daily is extremely effective. In terms of forcing yourself, we decided to use peer pressure. The user chooses a few people that we can notify if the user doesn't do their daily step. These people then reply back with positive advice/feedback to the user if the user fails to do their daily step.I created a custom goal called "Do 10 Pushups a Day" and it's been pretty good at making me actually do the pushups.We la

Resolutions don't work. Habits do.

Want to introduce an app / website I created for this - http://www.keepresolve.comBased on my own experiments and also watching how other users are following through, I noticed few things: (1) If an user starts with huge list of habits to develop, more likely or not s/he would quit fast -- so starting slow is recommended (2) I think having long term goal followed by daily steps / habits is a good idea

I recommend checking out Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg. He runs the Stanford Behavior Design Lab (previously known as persuasive tech lab). One takeaway from that book that might be relevant to you is that we tend to repeat actions that are rewarding in some way, so if you can think of ways to engineer reward into whatever activities you want to repeat, you have a higher likelihood of doing them.

Just do something each day. Streaks are powerful motivators. Read one page. Do a single push up. Message one friend to see how they're doing.

It's all about gaining new habits.

Don’t rely on motivation, it is fleeting. Develop and rely on habits and routines.