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Levels to a Better Life
Next let’s look at how to transform your life, one habit at a time. You've already set your standards, identified the need for strategies, and established rules to act as buffers in your journey. Now it's time to take the next step by focusing on habits. Habits are the building blocks of your daily actions, and they can either propel you forward or hold you back. By learning to master and stack habits, you'll create lasting change without feeling overwhelmed. Through simple, actionable steps, you’ll gradually align your habits with your goals, creating a life of progress and fulfillment.
You all have habits you want to change or improve. Often, it can be overwhelming to look at a list of all the new habits you realize you need to become who you want to become. I remember when I first made my rules and looked at all I had to do, I froze. I looked at all the habits I needed to cultivate, such as adjusting my wake-up time, changing how I ate, etc. My list was miles long. And I tried. I actually remember looking at a list of over fifty habits I wanted to shift and thought, Oh, I’ll just adjust it all at once. Obviously, I failed and fell flat on my face, leaving myself feeling more discouraged than ever and thinking, I’ll never be able to do this all. I remember thinking I should just give up. Then I had a good sleep and decided to come up with a plan. I was right, I couldn’t do it all at once. But I could do it all if I began one step at a time and habit stacked. I decided the best way to change fifty habits was to change only one a week. Change one, solidify it as my new lifestyle, then once it was ingrained, add the next. One new habit a week, stacked on top of all the previous weeks of habits implemented, would get me to my goal of fifty new habits in just under a year.
I wrote a list of one to fifty-two on a piece of paper, and I began to write out all the habits I wanted to change. Once the first draft was done, I rewrote it, trying to order the habits in the most logical way if I was going to stack them. For example, clearly waking up early was a foundational habit; when I solidified it, it would be easier to work out early, etc. It took me a few drafts until I had a winning order. Then I began to only change one habit a week. I have been doing this for years now and cultivated hundreds of changes in my behaviors with this simple list method of changing one at a time.

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