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Discussion on: How do you get started with new habits?

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Ross Henderson

It's something I struggle with. I can easily pick up bad habits, like most people. But they say it takes about 6 weeks to form a habit, so you need to actively do the habit you want to form for at least 6 weeks, eventually it will have become second nature hopefully and you're done.

I also find trying to change too many habits at once can really make it difficult, so try and keep things small.

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Quentin Sonrel

Yeah I do think it's a good idea to let the habit sink in with time but combined with the "one habit at a time" it's kinda discouraging, like it will take you 15 years to adopt all the new habits you want to adopt 😂

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Ross Henderson

You're absolutely right! I didn't mean for it to come across as one at a time, but a few. I attempted once to change practically my whole routine, and I lasted about a week before I fell back into bad habits.

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Quentin Sonrel

Yeah, I know that, I did the same thing and it ended the same way!