Habits will help you automate your behaviors and introduce changes in your life without exerting huge amounts of self-control.

What I didn’t mention in the first chapter, though, is the idea that you can combine your existing habits with new good ones.

For instance, if you always brush your teeth right after you wake up, associate the act of brushing your teeth with a short meditation session afterward. Once you establish a new pattern, brushing teeth will remind you of the meditation.

When you establish the habit of meditating after brushing your teeth, you can add another good habit on top of these two habits, say writing down three things you’re grateful for.

Stacking habits on top of the existing ones is easier than coming up with completely new cues and routines and will help you form habits with more ease.

Associate new habits with the existing ones to make it easier to introduce a new routine in your life.

Please refer to the book for more details on this activity.