Are there things you’d love to start doing but you don’t? Maybe there are no emotions involved. Remember:
Habits form through emotion, not repetition.
“In my own research, I found that habits can form very quickly, often in just a few days, as long as people have a strong positive emotion connected to the behavior… When I teach people about human behavior, I boil it down to three words to make the point crystal clear: emotions create habits. Not repetition. Not frequency. Not fairy dust. Emotions.”
BJ Fogg, PhD, founded the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University. He is the author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything.
So whenever you start doing something new, tell yourself how much you love how you feel after doing it. Don’t blindly repeat the new habit. Find a positive emotion that you could connect with the new habit.
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