The Power of Cues in Creating New Habits

Cues are very powerful in creating new habits or preserving old ones. Wendy uses cues in her own life to build new habits. One cue for her is to wake up and have breakfast with her husband. That's her signal, her cue, that the next thing she needs to do is sit down at her computer and write for two hours. 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 of the decision making about when we're going to do it.