It's Sunday. October 11th.
New habits fail at the point of remembering, not at the point of doing. By the time you remember, the moment has passed and you're somewhere else.
So don't rely on remembering. Bolt it to something that already happens without fail — kettle on, laptop shut, teeth brushed. Those never get forgotten, and they'll drag the new thing along behind them.
The format:
The most common mistake is choosing an anchor that only usually happens. 'Before bed' is not an anchor - bedtime moves, and some nights it does not really happen. 'After I put the kettle on' is an anchor, because it happens at the same point in the same sequence every single day.
The second most common mistake is making the new thing ambitious. The anchor can only carry something small. Load it heavily and it stops firing within a week.
"After I [thing I already do without fail], I will [new thing, tiny]."
Two rules. The anchor must be genuinely automatic, and the new thing must be small enough that a bad day doesn't beat it.
Kevin | TodayIsTheDay
