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by cl42 1699 days ago
How many individual habits are you trying to form?

I have this problem when I try and form lots of habits at once. It's easy to remind yourself to meditate daily if it's the only habit you are trying to form.

Once you have two or three of these, you're moving into checklist territory... And then it's easy to have them slip.

My recommendation: pick one habit to form and work on it for several weeks. Once you notice it's actually habitual, then start working on a second one.

A few others have mentioned "Atomic Habits". It's a good book to review as well.