Automate Your Daily Routines With Habits To Free Up Your Brain

There are several behaviors you would like to do daily.

Many of these occupy your brain space.

That’s how they get done.

You remember to do them. Or you set up reminders to do them.

Some days it works and you do the behavior. But consistency is difficult.

Miss a few days and you have dropped the behavior.

Anything you want to do daily should be set up as a habit.

It is ridiculous the number of things we carry in our brains that can be automated or stored in an external system.

A Habit is a behavior you do frequently, at least once a day.

But not everything you do daily is a habit.

And that is fine for most behaviors. You see the garbage can is full (external prompt) and you take it out.

But many desired behaviors don’t have effective external prompts.

Say you want to become a writer and start writing daily.

Or, you want to meditate, run, practice public speaking.

This is where setting up a habit is a highly efficient way to do the behavior consistently.

Make the behavior automatic. And free up your brain from keeping track.

My favorite approach to habits is Tiny Habits, a method devised by Stanford Behavior scientist, Dr. BJ Fogg.

What I like most about tiny habits is that they are designed for the 'Real Me' instead of the Ideal Me.

The best way to get started is to do the free 5-day habits program on the Tiny Habits website.