A new relationship with failure
There are two extremely common obstacles that get in the way of people succeeding at habit change:
Messing up on the habit and then quitting.
Not starting because the habit change seems to hard or daunting.
Have you faced these problems? The answer is almost certainly yes, because pretty much all of us have.
The answer to both of these problems is really the same: do the habit. Keep doing it. Keep trying until you figure it out.
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BY LEO BABAUTA
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