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How to create good habits?
4. Make it satisfactory
Author: Manuela Guadalupe Ríos Hernández Give yourself an immediate reward for completing the habit.
4th level
Teacher: Andrea Ramos Navarro Create a way to see the benefits of not engaging in a bad habit.

Create and fill out a daily habit log.

When you forget, or cannot, do your habit, try not to repeat it twice in a row.
This 2021 many of us proposed to create new good habits. In this article I will talk about how How to eliminate a bad habit?
James Clear’s book “Atomic Habits” could help us develop good habits and eliminate bad ones.
First, what is atomic and habit? 1. Make it invisible.
2. Make it unattractive.
Atomic is the smallest unit into which matter can be divided without the release of electrically
charged particles. 3. Increases difficulties, creates impediments, to carry out bad habits.

An habit is a routine or practice that is performed on a regular basis, an automatic response 4. Create a habit contract.
to a specific situation.
5. Have someone monitor their behavior.
How to create a new habit?
1. Make it obvious.
Do a list with all the things you do in your dairy day. It helps you to raise awareness.

Set time, activity and fixed place.
„I will do [BEHAVIOR] at [TIME] in [LOCATION]“.

Make things easy and order.
Chaining of habits: „After [CURRENT HABIT], I will do [NEW HABIT].“

Modify your environment.
2. Make it attractive

Match an action you want to do with an action you need to perform. For example, if you want
to see a movie, but you must do homework, do your homework and then like a gift watch
the movie.
3. Make it easy

Reduce difficulties in doing the habit.
Prepare your environment to facilitate the step into action.
Optimizing small decisions generates impact.

Reduce the size of the habits until they can be done in two minutes or less.
Use technology to automate behavior, avoiding having to decide and act each time.

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