How to Build a New Habit

Cues are very powerful in creating new habits or preserving old ones. Wendy mentioned cues in the context of the popcorn study. In other words, you can essentially string habits together like a chain. If i give myself a couple of hours in the morning to write, if i structure it into my schedule, then i take away all the decision making and stress about when and where I'm going to do it. That's being decided, that this is part of my job, and i just need to do it....