“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Breaking bad habits can be tough but creating good habits can be as well. From my experience, one of the things that make forming a new habit hard is that a lot of will power is usually involved, at least in the beginning, and that alone can stop many people from correctly developing the desired habit.

Simple Trick to Easily Create a New Habit

I’m sure this has been written about somewhere before, maybe not with the name ‘habit linking’ but I was thinking since habits are really just a sequence of actions that starts with some form of trigger, the challenge in creating a new habit is that you have to consciously trigger the new habit. Now instead of just using will power and reminding yourself to start the new chain of actions each day, why not just link it to an existing habit?

The idea is to just choose a habit that you already have and link it to the new habit you want to create. Once the existing habit starts to run its course, you simply just add onto the sequence of actions that’s already in process.