This is Steveer Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

The best way to learn something, complete a long-term project, or pick up healthy routine is to form habits.

Without a habit, you have to use self-control.

Hey, Oreo Ice Cream Cake. I'm going out now. I'm going to the gym instead. See, I'm putting my

gym clothes in the bag. Oh, what's that you say? You'll miss me. Oh, geez, I'll just come over to make

sure you're okay. And, and you're more than okay. You're delicious. You're amazing. You're,

you're, oh, Oreo ice cream cake, take me away.

We hate self-control. Fortunately, there's a better way. Blind, unthinking habit. If you set up

habits, all of the self-control energy is freed up to devote to doing the actual work.

But forming habits is hard.

Ironically, it takes self-control.

And try as we might, we still don't end up using that gym membership more than once a week, or month, or year.

So, we need to find a way to make the habit stick.

And one way to do that is to use a trigger. Find the trigger that you're going to attach the habit to. A trigger to spur a certain

activity can be anything. An unconscious one is light. When the sun streams through our windows

in the morning, eyes snap open and we jump into the awesomeness of our day,

unless you're like me, and you use blackout curtains so that you don't have to wake up until

it's dark enough outside and time to feed. The next thing is that you get to choose the trigger

for the habits that you're establishing. You can choose a specific time of day to do the habit.

I mean, most of us brush our teeth right before bed or right before breakfast. You can choose a place

for the habit. If you're trying to read more books, the trigger could be that comfy, comfy chair

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