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with reverence in order to give it true value.
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1/25/2015

Be Less Lazy

Published on Dec 5, 2012
 
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What if someone told you to floss only one tooth everyday?

Or start the new year, not with grand resolutions, but with a simple challenge.. like ONE pushup a day?

BJ Fogg shows us that the key to lasting change does not lie in planning big, monumental changes, but in thinking really, really small.

Chosen by Fortune Magazine as one of "10 New Gurus You Should Know", Fogg directs the Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford University.

BJ Fogg's Website http://bjfogg.com/

www.behaviormodel.org

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www.foggmethod.com


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Transcript 1. Dr. BJ Fogg shares . . .How to Celebrate Tiny Successes People who celebrate can create habits fast.


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The 5-Minute-Trick Can Make You Less Lazy

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Sometimes, motivation doesn't come easy... there are things you need to get done; there will always be things you need to get done.

99U has a nice piece by writer Benjamin Spall that offers a simple way into trick yourself into getting started when you have zero motivation.

Just tell yourself you're going to do whatever it is you need to do for five minutes.

Spall explains:
The logic here is if you tell yourself you're only going to exercise, write, wash the dishes, or clean your apartment for "only five minutes," your brain doesn't have much of a leg to stand on.  
Nobody can argue with five minutes, including your brain, so it lets you have it.  
Of course, what then usually happens is at about the five-minute mark of your task, you start to get into it.  
You realise it isn't as hard as you had thought and you start to get a taste for it, a taste which will then lead you to wanting to continue with the task.





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Stacking Habits: How to Finally Stick to Your Morning Routine

by Benjamin Spall
 
 
Kaizen, the Japanese word for “continuous improvement,” is often applied in business situations to improve how a business runs and, therefore, the profitability of the entire operation.

Focusing on the belief that good processes bring good results, this same ideal can be applied to you and your habits.
 

Only Five Minutes

Changing habits, "only five minutes” approach to getting things done.

The logic here is if you tell yourself you’re only going to exercise, write, wash the dishes, or clean your apartment for “only five minutes,” your brain doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on.

Nobody can argue with five minutes, including your brain, so it lets you have it.

Of course, what then usually happens is at about the five-minute mark of your task, you start to get into it.

You realize it isn’t as hard as you had pegged it to be, and you start to get a taste for it, a taste which will then lead you to wanting to continue with the task.

Nobody can argue with five minutes, including your brain, so it lets you have it.
 
BJ Fogg spoke of an extreme example of this when he brought up his practice of flossing just one tooth a day during his November 2012 TEDx Talk.
Describing such an action as a “tiny habit,” Fogg noted that “You don’t need to train in flossing all your teeth, you need to train in making it automatic.”

Fogg went on to explain how once one of your new “tiny habits” has become a full-blown habit, you can use this existing habit as a gateway to creating many others; effectively “stacking” one habit on top of another.

Look down at the list of daily habits to bring into my morning routine in the coming months:
  • Flossing
  • Stretching
  • Push-ups
  • Meditation
Habits to “stack.”
... stretching
... 10 push-ups

... to have a fair shot at sticking to the habit, get a taste for it which would then lead to wanting to continue with the task.

Stacking Habits

Why did this work?

Fogg claims that there are three things that have to happen at the same moment to cause a new behavior:

i -   the motivation to do it,
ii -  the ability to do it, and
iii - a trigger must occur to remind you to do it.

Your trigger can be any existing habit or behavior; so long as you establish exactly what the new habit that follows the trigger will be (more on the science behind that here).

We can use this effect to “stack” habits. The trigger for my flossing routine was waking up. The trigger for my stretching routine was flossing. And so on.

One habit on my original list that I didn’t mention above was the wish to start reading Spanish fiction on a daily basis. I failed to create this habit, and I believe the reason I failed is because I didn’t stack it into my morning routine, instead choosing to do it immediately before going to bed each night, thus not giving it the trigger it needed.

You can have all the motivation in the world to form a new habit, and it can be well within your ability, but without that trigger it has nothing to hold on to.

If you’ve failed to bring certain habits into your morning routine in the past, try latching them onto your morning routine stack starting five minutes at a time, or as Fogg explains it, by forming a “tiny habit” wherein the existing habit is your new tiny behavior’s trigger.

Tell yourself:
After I [existing habit], I will [new tiny behavior].
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