How to develop the necessary habits and become a little happier

Every day we are writing to you dozens of articles, where we speak, how useful do morning exercises, eat healthy food, exercise regularly, and so on. Many people listen to our advice, and is added to your task list items "Make charging", "Read the book 30 Minutes", "Smile for 10 minutes" and so on. And some, by following our advice, still perform all tasks from your list for the day.

And, perhaps, it's good. But it is very annoying. You need (!) To perform these tasks. In practice, this process comes from the sticks. It would be much better if we were doing these tasks (sports, reading, self-study) for a reason. Simply because we wanted to do it. Just because we are used to doing it.

And then there is the question here. And how to make sure that anything has become our habit? Is it possible? And we have the answers to these questions. Firstly, yes, it's possible. You can make anything a habit. Secondly, there are many tools to help you do it.

How to develop the habit

In general, everything is very simple. If you regularly repeat the same action, it will enter you into the habit. our author

Sasha thinks MurakhovskiThat action is necessary to repeat 21 days. That is, if you every morning for 21 days will get up and force yourself to do exercises, then about 22 minutes a day it will become a habit for you. And then it will no longer have to force yourself. You just do it because it used to.

Not the fact that you have the habit of 21 days. You may have to torture yourself for much longer. I believe in the figure 60. For two months, I think we can get used to anything. And much not to change everything at once effective, and to do it gradually. Start by adding a sport in your life. Charging → → run gym. In sports there are some good effect, because of which you have the desire to eat healthy foods, actively engaged in the work, and so on.

Tools

Your progress is needed to fix. This will help you remember how long you develop the habit. Visualize your progress will also have a positive effect on your motivation. The motivation that you need to push yourself every day, for example, do exercises. Motivation, which will help you become better. Motivation that make your life easier.

Alternatively, you can make an ordinary paper notebook and record your progress there. Or even just on a sheet of A4 draw a table, where the string will match a habit, and columns - days. And every day you will put a tick or a cross when done charging. But this is not the best way to fix your progress. After all, we live in such a wonderful time for each task there is an app for your smartphone. And not even one - their dozens and hundreds.

Most of the great apps that help to develop the habit, for some reason, made exclusively in English. Application developers for Android and iOS, note. it do not spam, and a real opportunity to make money. Make beautiful and useful application, and it will find its customer.

Tools for Android

habbits (overview)

This is a very simple application that allows you to virtually expunged days not calendar paper and electronically. Your task - to create a long chain of days in which you perform the task set for the day.

HabitBull (overview)

This application, as habbits, not particularly functional. When you add a new habit, you can choose a regular assignment. Also this application is very convenient statistics are displayed.

Hab It! (overview)

This application is available in Russian, it just adds to it a couple of points. In the Hab It you have the opportunity to add a good or a bad habit. In addition, there is a list of already harvested habits, which, perhaps, you will find for yourself something useful. Here, just as in the habbits, you need to create a long chain of days in which you deal with tasks.

Tools for iOS

Way of Life (overview)

This app is absolutely identical application Hab It for Android. Add the habit, celebrating every day "yes" or "no", then we admire our progress. The free version is available only three habits.

Weekly (overview)

Absolutely free and with a beautiful app. At the beginning of its use, you will be shown the instruction, which will help to quickly deal with all the features. Weekly work with very simple: add a task, we select the frequency, note glass of champagne every assignment.

If you do not like smart phones or just do not use them, you can use Web services. Our author Dmitry Gorchakov made them overview.

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