One of the most effective things you can do to build better habits is to join a culture where your desired behavior is the normal behaviour.
The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time.
Achieving a goal only change your life for the moment. That's the counterintuitive thing about improvement.
Many people begin the process of changing their habits by focusing on what they want to achieve. This leads us to outcome-based habits. The alternative is to build identity-based habits. With this approach, we start by focusing on who we wish to become.
Anything wise in these pages you should credit to the many experts who preceded me. Anything foolish, assume it is my error.