Habit Hacking: How to Make Good Stuff Easy (and Bad Stuff Hard)
How to leverage convenience to help you build new habits and let go of old ones
Willpower is fickle. It shows up like an overcaffeinated cheerleader some mornings, then vanishes faster than free cake in the staff room by afternoon. What if you could design your environment to support your goals? What if there was a way to make good habits ridiculously convenient and bad habits a logistical nightmare?
That’s what we’re going to do right now.
Friction Fighters: Making the Good Stuff Effortless
Your 6 a.m. alarm goes off, and you scramble to find your workout clothes using your phone as a torch so as not to wake your partner. There’s nothing in the house for breakfast, and you can’t find your wireless earbuds.
It’s easy to see why you might just opt out and crawl back into bed for that extra half hour.
Now imagine the same 6 a.m. alarm in a parallel universe. You wake to find your gym clothes laid out, your favourite workout playlist cued on Spotify, and a delicious, high-protein breakfast ready to go.
That is the power of convenience.
