9 Steps to Make Big Changes that Will Stick

Want to change your behavior? Learn to build sticky habits.

Want to change your behavior? Learn to build sticky habits.

Build habits that stick — pic by Gareth

Making changes in your life can seem a daunting task.

Joining a gym is easy. It doesn’t take much effort to start reading a book or kick off a diet on Monday either.

But, as the week progresses, it becomes harder to find the motivation to cook a healthy meal. You can’t find the willpower to open a book instead of watching yet another episode of your favorite Netflix show.

Despite your commitment, you fail to stick to your new habits.

But willpower and commitment have nothing to do with achieving change. What you need is to build sticky habits.

It was Will Durant — not Aristotle — who said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

This article is going to give you 9 steps to build habits that stick. They have proven to work for me and hundreds of teams I’ve coached.

Habits are automated behaviors we do every day without noticing it. Building them requires time…