Sticky habits

Evolving and growing as a person requires updated and new skills. One of the best ways to introduce new skills is through habit. Change your habits and you change your world, or something like that.

It is challenging to introduce new habits. One of the ways I've been successful with new habits is by connecting them to existing habits. For example, I'm able to maintain a meditation practice by making it part of a larger lunch habit - leave the office, go home (or wherever) have a quick bite to eat and then provide myself the space and time to be meditative. This has worked well because my lunch habit was strong; I wanted to be out of the office to provide a break in the day. What better way to improve the outcome of that break than by introducing another supportive habit.

My intuition and experience tell me that it is easier to protect my habits in the morning. My resilience is stronger in the morning, and the habits I've created for early morning are important to me, thus, worthy of protection. Anything new I want to introduce will be best served by attaching to existing morning habits.