What are the top ten mistakes you make when trying to change your behavior?

By Eric Barker · 1 minute read

More on habits:

• You spend 40% of every day on autopilot, just performing habits.

• The secret to breaking bad habits is to not try to eliminate them but to replace them.

• You can resist bad habits by avoiding the triggers that make you want to do them. Context is key.

• The key to new good habits is to do the minimum and be consistent.

• To make good habits stick, create if-then plans and get support from friends. It takes an average of 66 days to establish a new good habit.

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Eric Barker is the author of Barking Up The Wrong Tree, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and Plays Well With Others, a USA Today bestseller. Over 500,000 people have subscribed to his newsletter. More about Eric