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How To Implement Habits You Do All The Time
1 min readJan 14, 2022
Some habits are meant to be done all the time. Examples are
- Good body posture
- Keeping the tongue at the correct place (something I personally try to do to heal my jaw from years of clinching)
- Breathing through your nose only
- Capturing recurring thoughts, ideas and negative feelings in a notebook, document or phone
- Being present and accepting where you are right now, making the best of it
- Focus on doing one small thing after another
Compared to normal good habits, the time and location do not apply here since they are omnipresent. Do this instead:
Step-by-step instructions
- Select one omnipresent habit that you want to start
- Associate the habit with its feeling. The first time you do the habit, clearly internalize how it feels
- Use reminders. In the reminder app of your phone, you can set a recurring reminder every hour that says the specific habit. Once you are naturally leaning into the habit, you can deactivate the reminder.
- (Optional) Each evening, write down how it went, where you fell off, and how to prevent these occasions.
As always, be patient. Especially for these habits.