How to Develop a New Habit Effectively? How to Develop a New Habit Effectively? Before we start our discussion today, I’d like to go over a question: What could we do to develop a good habit effectively? Maybe you’ll call back/remember a few key points I mentioned in my previous articles, such as: Never depends on self-discipline, that would be inefficient. We could go/start from “motivation-resistance model”, then find….( I’m trying to say,the thing we want it so bad,it grows from deep in heart, we call for it, and it drives us forward.) Take simplest procedure(or minimizing steps?) as much as possible to minimize resistance so you’ll act immediately when you think of it. Get/create an effective clue, put the new habit behind the old habit, and design the rules for “once…then…” to remind ourselves. And we could work on the environment to reduce the mental/energy cost for actions. Set up all the environment to push ourselves into real actions. What could we get if we summarize all of them? 1. Set up the rules and environment to minimize the resistance. 2. Set the first step on purpose to push ourselves into real actions. 3. Get feedbacks from the actions, reward ourselves then adjust the environment and rules. By doing this, once we get through the first phrase, we don’t need to rely on our willingness. The environments, rules, feedbacks would push it into actions. Comparing to discipline, this would be more effective and continuous . Because we don’t need to put too much energy and self-control into it. Once we get it started, the recycle would get moving(rolling?) itself, then we could just reduce the input, the recycle would keep running itself. We could just refer to this mode as recycle mode.