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How To Implement Habits You Do All The Time

Oscar Lagrosen
1 min readJan 14, 2022

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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.

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Oscar Lagrosen
Oscar Lagrosen

Written by Oscar Lagrosen

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