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The Habit Change Cheatsheet:
29 Ways to Successfully Ingrain a Behavior
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but
a habit. - Aristotle
Our daily lives are often a series of habits played out through the
day, a trammeled existence fettered by the slow accretion of our
previous actions. But habits can be changed, as difficult as that
may seem sometimes.
There are so many examples around us: people do quit smoking,
stop impulse spending, get out of debt, begin running and
waking early and eating healthier, become frugal and simplify
their lifes, become organized and focused and productive, … you
get the picture.
Keep it simple
Habit change is not that complicated. While the tips below will
seem overwhelming, there’s really only a few things you need to
know. Everything else is just helping these to become reality.

The simple steps of habit change:
1. Write down your plan.
2. Identify your triggers and replacement habits.
3. Focus on doing the replacement habits every single
time the triggers happen, for about 30 days.
That’s it. We’ll talk more about each of these steps, and much
more, in the cheatsheet below.

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