In this article you will know about habits , that what are there use in our everyday lives and how to form them.
Have you ever noticed we all have daily routines and almost everyday we do the same things over and over again.
But, Why ? The answer is because of habits.
90% of the things we do on a day are because of our habits.
If you do something over and over again it becomes a habit.
When some task becomes a habit we consume less brain energy to do it and the task becomes easy
Are Habits Good Or Bad
Now a question arises that are habits good or bad ? The answer is both .
Habits can be your greatest enemy, if you are building a lot of bad habits or it could be your friend if you are building good habits .
But , the problem is that you dont know how do you build a habit .
So read this article full to know everything about how a habit is made.
4 Steps For Making A Habit
1) Cue : Make it obvious
The first step for making a habit is to make it obvious.
For example : When your phone's notification comes you know what you have to do . Open the phone and check what causes that notification.
How to use it ? The answer is you need to make your habit obvious . For that you can take a piece of sheet and write when and where you're gonna do it .
Even better method is that, you can use habit stacking the works like :
1) Wake up and get outta bed.
2) Brush your teeth's
3) Take a shower and get dressed.
4) Go for a morning walk .
And so on.
2) Craving :Make It Attractive
Second step is to make it attractive.
For example :
When you click the notification it gives you sudden flow dopamine , that's why it is attractive .
There is a trick to use it for making good habits .
You can relate any of the good habits to something you like to do .
For example :
If you want a habit of reading books you can just do something fun before reading like you can play video games for 5 - 10 minutes then immediately after that start reading books .
This will make reading books more attractive .
3) Response : Make It Easy
Third step is to make the habit easy . So that you start doing it .
For example:
It is very easy to just open your phone and click the notification .
But, doing exercise is hard , it consumes a lot of physical strength.
What you can do is make the habit easy.
Just , exercise for minutes in the starting , just read 1 page a day in Starting.
You can slowly, increase the time you give to that task.
4) Reward : Make It Satisfying
The last step for making something your daily habit is make it Satisfying.
For example : When you click on the notification and it opens then there is your reward you get to see the message or email or whatever the notification is about .
Whenever you follow your habits get yourself some small rewards to make the habit satisfying .
Like , after you read 10 pages you can get yourself a small reward like 10 minutes of video games .
Note : Dont get a reward that mess with the habit like dont get some junk food after exercising as a reward or whole habit will be of no means .
Conclusion
Make one or two habit a month , not more than that or you will have a great chance of failing.
What is the habit you wanna make firstly ? Comment down.
great article man
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