Prime your environment to make good habits easier and bad habits harder from "summary" of Summary of “Atomic Habits” by James Clear by Lea Schullery
To make it easier to stick to good habits and break bad ones, it’s important to prime your environment. Your environment plays a significant role in shaping your behavior, so it’s essential to set it up in a way that promotes positive habits and discourages negative ones. One way to do this is through the use of cues. Cues act as triggers that signal your brain to start a particular habit. By designing your environment with cues that prompt good habits, you can make it easier for yourself to follow through on those habits. For example, if you want to start a daily running habit, you can lay out your running shoes and clothes the night before as a visual cue to remind you to go for a run in the morning. On the other hand, if you want to break a bad habit like mindlessly snacking while watching TV, you can remove the cues that trigger that behavior, such as keeping unhealthy snacks out of sight.
In addition to cues, you can also make good habits more convenient and bad habits more difficult to engage in. For instance, if you want to eat healthier, you can make it easier by stocking y...
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