How to Maintain Not-Quite-Daily Habits - The Diigo Meta page

• 31 Jul 08
  

  0nm8

  pd pavlina habits

  • 2. Use placeholder habits.
  • Suppose you want to exercise 5 days a week, and you really want to keep those off days. Instead of doing your regular exercise, you could schedule an an alternative activity for the same time.
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  • • I recommend that you use placeholder habits that are similar in some way to the original habit. For example, on your off days for exercise, you could still do something physical like walking, stretching, or yoga. This turns your physical development into an everyday practice, even though you’re doing different activities each day.
    • 3. Chain Habits.
    • When you chain a series of habits together, they become easier to maintain. As soon as you begin the first habit in the chain, the rest of the sequence will tend to take care of itself.
    • 4. Make specific commitments.
    • If there are certain habits you won’t perform every day, decide exactly when you will perform them.
    • It’s very easy to fail when you give yourself too many outs and don’t really commit. On any given day, there should be no question as to whether you will or won’t perform your habitual activity. Ditch the mights, maybes, and shoulds. Either you will or you won’t. Decide in advance what it will be.
• 21 Jul 08
  

  Dorota .

  habits

• 12 Jun 08
  

  Terry Elliott

  notquitedaily gtd

• 02 Jun 08
  

  Linden Mueller
  • Block out time on your schedule, and add these commitments to your calendar. Be sure not to schedule anything else for those times.
  • Ditch the mights, maybes, and shoulds. Either you will or you won’t. Decide in advance what it will be.

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