HOW TO MAKE (OR BREAK) A HABIT IN 3 SIMPLE STEPS

''Create positive habits and kick the ones you want to change. It all comes down to triggers, routines and rewards.

We all have habits we wish we could change. Whether it’s snacking on chocolate biscuits after dinner, forgetting to floss our teeth, or hitting snooze when the alarm goes off, we know if we could just break that habit we would see a small but real benefit to our lives.

Often we can feel that we’re stuck with our habits. But as it turns out, habits are much less complicated and more changeable than we think.

In his book The Power of Habit, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charles Duhigg breaks down the process of habits into three steps, based on his extensive research into behavioral science:..''

by Sharon Curtain