Welcome to the blog millionaire, where we break down the essential strategies of today's most successful bloggers

to take your blog to the next level with top-notch content, monumental traffic growth, and multiple revenue streams to go beyond your wildest goals.

So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host, whose blog gets more than one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey.

My name's Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 145 of the blog millionaire.

A study by Duke University in 2006 found that about 45% of all your

daily behaviors are automatic. This means that one out of every two minutes, you are doing things

that you're not even aware of. It is not hard to realize from these stats that habits matter.

The Pulitzer Prize winning author, Charles Duhigg, wrote the Power of Habit back in 2012.

It spent over 120 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

This book has some key lessons that can be applied to most anything in life, which includes blogging. Charles found that habits work in a three-step

loop. This loop begins with the cue, like your alarm clock going off. This cue causes a spike in your brain

activity and the brain decides what habit is appropriate for that situation. The next step is

the routine. This is the activity you are used to performing when you were queued.

This might be marching to the bathroom on autopilot to brush your teeth.

The three-step loop ends with the reward.

In this case, it is the fresh, tingling taste in your mouth.

And at that point, the brain registers the completion of the

loop and reinforces the link between the cue and the routine. I'll go ahead and stop with all of the

scientific details right here. I just wanted to give you the basics of what habits are founded on so that you can

learn how to use this to form good habits and kick bad habits. Whether it is a good or bad habit,

the reward is the big kicker. People that exercise habitually have been shown to crave exercise because of the

endorphine rush in the brain, which gives a sense of accomplishment and the treat for completing

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