Make New Habits Easier

Your mental and physical state is different across different phases of the day - because of the activation/deactivation of certain neural circuits. You can leverage those to generate the habits or behaviors you desire.

In the first 0-8 hours after waking, the neuromodulators epinephrine, adrenaline, and dopamine are elevated. This puts you in a better state of pushing yourself to doing things you don't want to do (i.e. limbic friction).

So if there's something you feel like "aaaa I don't want to do this", you are better able to push yourself in this time-frame than other parts of the day.

Action steps:

1. Choose the habit you want to improve (ex. eat less sugar, watch less YouTube, do cold showers).

2. Acknowledge that it's easier to do that in these 0-8 hours.

3. Actively resist/engage in that habit in this part of the day.

You can go here to add the habit to your calendar.

This tool is from the Habits episode at 38:16.