How to Form Habits that Stick

Make Habits that Stick!

Watch the video below to see why habits are pretty amazing:

"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Will Durant

The most important posts about habits:-

My habit system - I used all the information I'd gleaned from reading all the best books and resources on habit formation to create a "system" that I run through when trying to build habits.
Why trying harder doesn't work - the fundamentals of willpower, why it's so valuable and why it's a poor strategy for habit building
How to design your life to preserve willpower - by being mindful and understanding how our willpower becomes unnecessarily depleted on a daily basis can help us maintain self control and see things through to the end

I'm currently using the techniques that I talk about on this site to write daily, record a daily video, write a daily ritual and read. You can track my progress here. And here is my current habit system (regularly updated as changes occur!)

Free stuff on its way!

I keep the following list of books and online resources updated whenever I come across awesomeness:-

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - one of my favorite books about habits. Must read.
Behavioral change by BJ Fogg - Stanford professor with lots of amazing resources on behavior change and habit formation
James Clear - one of my favorite writers on the subject of self development and habit formation. I recommend signing up and studying his free habit guide.
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney - one of the leading resources on willpower, what it is and how to preserve it.
Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results by Stephen Guise - a nice procrastinating busting method of building habits by starting with really small commitments.
The Now Habit by Neil Fiore - a great book about the psychology of procrastination and some practical tips you can use to resolve that with certain overlaps into habit formation.
Cool presentation by Roy Baumeister - nice overview of willpower, signs of willpower depletion, and how to strengthen it.
Finisher's Formula by Ramit Sethi - while this paid course is mainly about how to train yourself to see things through to the end, a lot of the material is about habit formation and includes a really awesome interview with Charles Duhigg, the author of "The Power of Habit".

Here is also a list of the best scientific studies on habit formation and willpower preservation.