The Habit Ladder: How To Make A New Routine Stick
When one good habit triggers another, the speed of success doubles.
I can hardly remember what my mornings look like these days. It’s taken years and much trial and error, but I have a routine now that needs no thought to be completed. Each action, all morning long, is pre-scripted, memorized, and controlled by habit.
I wake up and put my running clothes on. A 5-mile run leads to a shower, breakfast, and then my most important task of the day.
The same thing happens, like clockwork, every… single… day.
What I—and many others, perhaps yourself—have constructed is what I like to call a habit ladder—an automatic system that quickly transforms you from a heap of unconsciousness to a productive human being.
A morning routine is just one example of a habit ladder, though. The same concept can be applied across every aspect of your life to make the important actions you want to take quick and painless. And the trick isn’t so much in what you do, but the order you do them in.
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