Hello and welcome to Zoe Recap where each week we find the best bits from one of our

podcast episodes to help you improve your health. Today we're discussing

how to build a healthy habit. Making changes to our lifestyle can be hard.

Our behaviors are often hardwired, ingrained into a regular routine that's reluctant to budge.

So, what can I do to make a new habit stick?

Author of atomic habits, James Clear, is here to tackle this question.

He has four simple steps that will significantly

increase your chance of success.

If you want to build a good habit,

there are four things you can do. The first thing is you want to make it obvious.

So you want the cues of your good habits to be obvious, available, visible, easy to see,

easier just to get your attention, the more likely you are to act on it.

The second law is to make it attractive, the more attractive or appealing a habit is, the more

motivating or enticing it is, the more likely we are to feel compelled to do it.

The third law is to make it easy.

The easier, more convenient, frictionless, simple habit is, the more likely it is to be performed, and then the fourth and final law is to make it

satisfying.

The more satisfying or enjoyable a habit is, just like we were talking about a minute ago,

whatever you feel like is rewarding or pleasurable, the more likely you are to repeat in the future.

So make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, make it satisfying.

Now, there are many ways to do each of those things.

And Atomic Habits covers that in greater detail. We'll talk

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