To creat a habit, Tell a good story.

To Create a Habit, Tell a Good Story<br><br>If you want to create a new exercise habit (for example), you might tell yourself something like this:<br>“This is going to be amazing, I’m going to get fit and look incredible and be super healthy!”<br>This is a story you’re telling yourself. It’s not real, but it has tremendous power to affect your feelings about your habit, and to change your action. You have a positive story about the habit, and it motivates you to take action.<br>But perhaps the exercise you did one day was really tough, and you didn’t enjoy it. Your story might change, to something like, “Wow, that was super hard. It sucked!”<br>Now your story about the habit is not so good, and you’ll be less enthusiastic about doing the habit from now on.<br>Maybe you also missed a couple of days of exercise because you got busy. Your story changes to, “Damn, I screwed up, I’m not as good at this habit as I thought, why am I not disciplined?”<br>The story isn’t so good. Now you might ...