Why are Habits Important?
Project Guide:
Your project assignment is to design a sustainable daily habit to accomplish something you have been wanting to do. I will walk you through the following milestones that are essential to creating a habit and making it stick:
- Identify your new keystone habit
- Choose an existing anchor habit as your new trigger
- Choose a reward for completing your habit
- Choose a reminder
- State your implementation intentions
- Make your habit easy to start by identifying your small wins
- Identify your loopholes and closers
- Modify your environment
- Choose a habit tracking approach and tool
- Select an accountability system
- Evaluate your results
Resources:
- Class slides PDF
- Habit Loop 2.0 Template PDF: the primary 2-page document used to design your habit, which can be filled out on your computer or printed and filled out by hand
- Coach.me 21-Day Challenge: a free 21-day accountability program to put your newly designed habit into action, using the popular coaching service Coach.me
- Habit Personality Quiz: a quick quiz that indicates what learning and accountability style is best for you
- Habit Personality Types: explanations of the 4 habit personality types, from Gretchen Rubin's blog The Happiness Project
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