Tiny Habits: New Year New Me

[...] we should think small — as in tiny behaviors that can become habits.

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The idea is to make these behavior changes so small that they're easy to do, according to BJ Fogg, a behavior scientist at Stanford University and author of the new book Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything. 

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"It's easier to create habits and change than most people think, and it's faster than most people think," Fogg says. "It can even be fun, if you do it in the right way." 

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So in the Tiny Habits method, you have these three hacks coming together.  

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In the case of wanting to read more, that might mean read one paragraph. In the case of meditating, it might be take three calming breaths. 

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You can just go to the airport and watch. You've got an escalator; you've got stairs. Who's taking the stairs? The people in a rush. They're running to catch their plane, so that's why they're taking the stairs.

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The less motivation an action takes, the easier it will be to carry out that action.

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Our motivation won't always be high, and the way we get around that is to make the behavior really, really easy to do.

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The Tiny Habits method came from me looking at my own model and understanding that motivation is going to go up and down over time.  

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