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A Creature of Habit

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

How to Form Habits Around Healthy Behaviors

Exercising or eating healthy food often have tremendous long term benefits, but they're often not very fun to do. So how do you form habits around healthy behavior? You have to consciously figure out ways to link these healthy behaviours with short-term rewards. Don't just force yourself to eat more vegis. Figure out ways to make the vejis delicious and enjoyable. If your reward is some bonus at the end of the week, or something that you give yourself am for achieving a health goal several months down the road, that's not going to be the kind of reward that builds a habit....

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