The first step toward being less distracted in the pursuit of our goals, including New Year's resolutions? We need to understand what can and can't become a habit.
"Eventually, some routines can become habits, but not every routine can become a habit." , like where we eat meals each day or how we get ready for bed. So, the logic goes, if only we could figure out a way to"hack" our New Year's resolutions and turn them into habits, we'd be well on our way to completing them without even thinking about it.
"If a behavior is effortful, it can't be a habit by its very definition," Eyal says."We need to stop telling people everything can become a habit. It can't.", rather than routines, Eyal notes, and the problem isn't merely a matter of semantics. From there, the problem snowballs: Eyal says people then think"there must be something broken — not in the methodology, but in me … and so they give up altogether. And now, we leave them worse off than when we started."Instead of aiming for habits, he says people should focus more on building routines, since, by definition, routines acknowledge the difficulty of changing patterns.
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