Strategy 10: Mix Things Up

I will take a second to tell you the obvious. Then I will let you in on a little secret about Ultiself.

The Obvious:

Building good habits is becoming a huge trend.

There are numerous best selling books like Atomic Habits by James Clear and the Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg.

Multiple habit tracker apps and even more content sites.

The Secret:

When we started making the Ultiself app, I did not want to call our habits habits!!!

If you think about it they are actually “activities”.

You see, habits are activities that you perform automatically after a certain cue.

They are triggered in the Basal Ganglia in your brain rather than the prefrontal cortex and they require way less willpower than activities.

Examples of habits are brushing your teeth when you get out of bed. Or tying your sneakers after you put it on.

You do them without actually thinking about it proactively.

Reading for 30 minutes a day or checking your finances once a week are very important, but they are actually activities.

Anyways, eventually our marketing guy convinced me that we have to ride this “habits” wave and, since I want customers, i gave in.

Why am I telling you this?

Because the concept I am about to teach is going to go against the whole definition habits.

But before you think I am crazy just ask yourself this question.

Don’t you want your routine to be filled with the activities that will get you to your goals the fastest? That will make you the happiest, strongest, sharpest and most confident?

Obviously! Right?

So, aside from your core habits like exercising, drinking enough water and getting enough sleep…

...You need to mix things up. It will:

• Optimize your routine
• Keep things fresh and fun
• And ensure that you are getting the most benefits from your habits

There is yet another concept to consider:

In psychology there is a term called habituation...

The definition is: the diminishing of a psychological response to a specific stimulus over time.

This means that meditating for 10 minutes a day will most likely have more effect on your focus on day 30 than it will be on day 300.

Point is you always need to keep tweaking, you can always be better…

Remember you don’t want to get hooked on the good habits. You need to get hooked on the “self improvement game”.

The quest to build your ultimate self never ends!