Source https://zenhabits.net/the-heart-of-change/
By Leo Babauta
Creating a new habit like meditation, journaling or exercise isn’t incredibly complicated — at the most basic level, you tie the habit to a trigger that’s already in your life, start small, and find ways to encourage yourself to remember it and actually do it.
But it becomes a much more complicated and much messier ordeal because:
- We have resistance;
- We give in to the resistance;
- We feel bad about ourselves as a result; and
- We make that meaningful, get discouraged, and let that derail us.
This is an almost universal thing, in my experience. No one escapes this trap.
So how do we work with it? We can make things really simple (that’s not to say easy) by getting to the heart of this: the resistance.
In addition, it helps to have a way to deal with feeling bad about ourselves when we …