Habits
This page contains note about my Personal habits.
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks… It’s only by making the fundamentals of life easier that you can create the mental space needed for free thinking and creativity. - James Clear, author of Atomic Habits
Habits (actual and aspirational)
- Write down the habits I am trying to establish and those I am trying to avoid
- I will have a keyboard in front of me whenever I am learning.
- Thirty minutes of exercise four days per week
- Go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day
- Make my bed each morning
What helps me maintain a habit
- Start with a goal small enough that it is easy to do consistently.
- Attach a new habit to something I already do.
- Decide in advance when and where I will do it.
- Keep things I need for the habit easy to access.
- Missing one day does not mean I should abandon the habit.
- Review habits occasionally and decide whether they are still useful.
Things I have learned about myself
- I am more likely to exercise when I decide what I am going to do before the day begins.
- Goals that are too ambitious are harder for me to maintain.
- Keeping a book next to my bed makes me much more likely to read.
- A checklist is useful when establishing a habit, but once something becomes automatic I don't need to keep tracking it.
- If I do something two days in a row, I am already on track toward building a habit.
- If I skip performing a habit two days in a row, I am have already begun a new habit of skipping that habit.