Creating habit by counting number of repeats, no thanks!
I enjoy browsing Internet and finding useful free resources. However, I’m rarely almost never read them. This is shame. Some day before I find one very useful book.
On this link you can find this and other book. This book is about creating habit. I read many articles and post about creating habit and all miserably failed in producing effect, and this guy know why.
Creating habit is much more then counting how many time you do it in a row. It’s more about attention. For example:
Wanted habit:
Go in the gym on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
What you will do to create habit?
Set your mobile or some other organizer to remind you hour before gym just to make sure you don’t forget.
What is result?
Work like charm you almost never forget a gym, however sometimes is just not right moment, you are too tired, it was a busy day… or even you forget completely and when organizer remind you, you realize that you need more than hour just to make nerve to go to gym. If all else go eventually you will get nasty flu or some prolonged crises on a job and you will forget about going to gym for a week or two and then keep forgetting.
Why?
Because changing habit is changing your mind and you didn’t even try to change it. Mind is changed by attention.
How I change my mind and give attention to my new habit?
By making your new habit central theme of your days for at least some time. If you want to go to gym start some exercise program that will go all day because you go to gym for your health, look, good figure… not because you just want to go in gym.
- After sleep do some short exercises, five minutes of low effort activity is enough,
- When you get home after work do some low effort activity when you watch TV,
- Before sleep do some short exercises, five minutes of low effort activity is enough.
Notice difference? You do some sort of gym all day so when you go to gym it’s nothing new to your brain it’s just one way to do your favorite activity. How brain know this is your favorite activity? Because you do it all day. 
This is fantastic idea
Never thought of it this way. I have been struggling to start anything new (to get my goals) and would end up frustrated after some days.
This is cool. I am definitely going to implement this idea and am pretty sure its gonna work
Thanks a lot