Get Your Habits Ready for Google Calendar If you use Google Calendar every day anyway, you can tailor it in a way that supports your efforts toward behavior change.

Make it satisfying: Track your habit by checking it off on a calendar or whiteboard whenever you complete it that day.Īccording to Clear, your environment is the key element that fosters change.

Make it easy: Set up your environment so that things like making a healthy breakfast are very easy to do in the morning, and include reminders that’ll trigger that habit.

Make it attractive: Pair a habit that you enjoy doing after a habit you need to do but may not enjoy quite as much.

Make it obvious: Write down your existing habits, including the bad ones you want to get rid of, and the new ones you want to create.The most important takeaway of this book is the Four Laws of Behavior Change. Change habits by analyzing your “ideal” identity, and crafting your habits to support that identity – who you wish to become.Rather than focusing on big-picture goals, focus on developing an effective habits-based system.Success in life comes from small, incremental improvements over time, created by good habits.

The key takeaways from his self-help book are:

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